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The problem is the extreme wealth disparity, not any individual person's wealth.
How can we fix that though?
Wealth creation is much more in the hands of an individual.
For example an article I read about Ilitch the founder of Little Ceasars said that he and his wife opened their first pizza place with money he saved from being a door to door salesman .
If he didn't first save that money and then didn't invest that money and take a chance he likely would of never become wealthy.
Even taxing rich people a lot won't create wealth for poor or middle class people .
Many people just don't have the discipline to save money in the first place in order to make those investments that lead to wealth .
My guess is that the amount of disparity between your wealth and the poorest persons wealth is huge.
Ready to have it knocked down for the sake of perceived fairness?
Right people are fine with reducing and dividing up the wealth of other people but not their own wealth .
It's just like the whole white privilege thing that liberals always cry about .
If white priveldge exists as they believe , white liberals wouldn't be willing to give up their positions at elite universities so a nonwhite student could enroll .
Would they give you their higher paying "white jobs" so that a black or Hispanic person in poverty could benefit and get themselves out of poverty ?
Compared to an indigenous person along the Amazon River, even the homeless in the United States are incredibly wealthy.
In fact, compared to the average wealth of the entire population of the world, United States citizens are quite wealthy.
Yet, one does not see many people sending half of their net worth to the starving in Africa.
Many people feel quite virtuous and self-congratulatory if they send $5 per month!
Redistribution of wealth or equitable division of wealth is a wonderful thing as long as it is the filthy rich other guy doing it!
Darn slick to be able to extract $284.5 million in public funds from Detroit a week after the city declared bankruptcy.
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