2012-07-25, 08:56 AM
Flonne Wrote:I don't care if I made 200K a year or 200M a day, if I don't feel like giving it away, it belongs to me. Some billionaires prefer to give to charity, and that's fine too; the point is, the money does not belong to the government, it belongs to the person that worked for it.
So, rolling in a heap of money like Scrooge McDuck.
You can't have work without demand - isolate any billionaire on Mars and they'll find that suddenly no matter how hard they work, making executive decisions, they don't get any richer.
Rich people depend far more on the existence of poor people than poor people do on rich people, in the same way that top of the food chain predators need large numbers of prey.
Flonne Wrote:I'm not murdering someone by not giving them free pomegranate; they can work for it like everyone else does or they can suffer the consequences of not doing so, they don't deserve my sympathy if they don't at least try.Further, I'm still appalled that your default assumption is that they didn't try. It's exactly like a lottery winner telling everyone else they should have bought more tickets, and they could be winners too. It just plain ignores reality.