I’m not including the government in this because they actually do intentionally cause suffering and just so happen to be rich by stealing all your tax payer dollars.
Both parties do this. (I had to give that disclaimer, now to my opinion)
I saw a post that said “eat the rich”, I still think it’s kind of funny, but only because how stupid it is. Like how is fighting the rich (regular people with money) going to fix your problem (regular people without money)? It won’t.
I’m not sure if it’s just a trend online or because people are angrier due to more stress from bills, yada yada. (Feel free to school me on this part)
I do know that if you picked 1000 rich people and weighed their usefulness and positive impact on society it would outweigh 100,000 nonrich people.
For instance rich people make businesses that hire people, those people can work. Good (if that’s what you care about)
Rich people get inventions produced and do research and development. Now you’re using technology some rich person created. They may not have even been rich before they created it. Getting wealth may have been a side effect of their success. Do you still “eat the rich”?
It’s foolish and clearly bitterness. I know you have evil demons like Gates running around who happens to be rich AND villainous. However I’ve seen many evil and unwealthy people. Basically I think you all need to look at things with a clearer lense and stop hating and try to build wealth or at least freedom from needing wealth.
The fallacy that people “make work” is so ingrained in our societies. Yep, i get up in the morning and “build” a “work” for someone to work in. Sure buddy.
What happens is that a) in a specific place, there is a demand, say for example for shoes, and someone with the money and education starts a shoe shop there. Now he can hire someone doing the grunt work.
The smart business guy can try to open 1.000 shoe shops in spaces where there are no demand and despite how early ge gets up in the morning and how hard he works they will all fail (and hire no one in the end).
They’re investors, they open that shoe shop, knowing the risk (because they learned how to assess a businessplan in business school), and because they open several, the risk is mitigated (if one shop doesn’t “work out” just fire the workers and close it, putting the cost on the other shops).
This is classic business, and you can even have a go at it yourself (at big risks as you can probably only open one shop yourself, but you can, maybe).
A sidenote about Eat the rich, they are not business investors, they bought up the country, the government, law and order, they are breaking the social contract and even the contract of how money works, that’s why it’s not just important but for our own survival that we must “eat the rich”.
Just because you lack the ability to create work doesn’t mean others do. I’ve seen people start a restaurant and hire workers, creating work for them to do
That’s because there was a need, a demand.
Demand is made by policy, global economy and so, not by some hard working person, that person “just” (it can for sure be hard work, I’m not denying that) fills an existing need.