Quote:Oh, man, this is where you and I part ways completely.

 

I have some friends who are rich, and they didn't make their money "siphoning it off from a large corporation."   They built businesses from the ground up, they did it with blood, sweat, and tears, and taking big risks, and along they way they created good jobs for hundreds of families, some of them in their particular business organization, and others outside it, like realtors, contractors, landscapers, boat builders, housekeepers, divorce lawyers, car dealers, and on and on and on.  And the money they managed to put in the bank went to mortgages and loans to people who needed them, and some of that money went to loans for people to start businesses that created hundreds of more jobs. 

 

I will NEVER discount the idea that some people are job creators and they get rich as a result of that, and they deserve their wealth because they created jobs and products that make lives a lot easier.  

 

We definitely do part ways.

 

I recognize that they didn't create those jobs, society did. They managed to be the person in the right position to harvest a lot of the value out of something that society wanted and needed.

 

There's no such thing as a person as a job creator, that's something that society creates. People as job creators are really just functioning as a small part of society and getting richly rewarded for it. Of course when you say rich person and I say rich person we're probably talking about two different things since I doubt you know anyone that's pulling in seven figures from a large corporation that would run just as well or just as poorly without them siphoning off that money as it does with them siphoning it off.

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