Quote Originally Posted by boost
Someone mentioned that poor people should be more grateful to rich people since they are providing goods and services for the poor. Well Im not sure if you had your head stuck too far up your ass to notice but its a symbiotic relationship. And when this relationship gets out of whack, we have french revolutions.
I realize the tone of my comment was pretty bad. Looking at it, it did sound up-tight. The point I wanted to make is that most people don't realize that they actually benefit from others being rich.

Economy is NOT a zero-sum game. One's richness is not someone else's poorness. In capitalism, during the process of getting rich you also enrichen others. I hate when people just look at society and say "he's rich he should pay more." The thing is, in most cases he has already given way more to society than most people. That should be rewarded, not punished.

Also, the only way to get such an uneven distrubution of wealth such as in france prior to the revolution, is through taxation.