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In reply to the discussion: "You're goddamn right we want to take from the rich ..." [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)There simply is no way for any human being to 'deserve' what almost all of the 0.1% have. That's money that's been bled off from millions of actual workers to generate 'profits'. Getting paid millions a year simply means you got paid millions a year. Not that you 'earned it', or 'deserved it'. That you found a place in the amoral 'free market' structure in which you can walk away with millions of dollars from other people. Not that you're any better than them, any worse than them, just that you managed to find one of the niches into which wealth taken from others is out of proportion to the value received in return.
It's the very assumption that they could possibly 'earn' or 'deserve' such obscene amounts that has utterly poisoned our political system.