Attacking individuals for not behaving how you believe they should is ridiculous...
... and self righteous.
How could anything ever change if we didn't criticize people for their wrong actions?
You straight criticized me for not behaving like you believe I should in that very comment.
We already have a government and a system of redistribution in place, if it’s ineffective it should be reformed.
Our economic and government system is literally designed to distribute money from the poor TO the wealthy. That's the entire point of an economic system where the money standard is built on loans at interest and the wealthy dominating the means of production. At times in history we've had other competing bodies to at least attempt to slightly neutralize that, but for 40 years both parties have full-on deep-throated the "we must let the market decide" shyt that you preach and given up on redistribution. The rich own the capital, the businesses, and the housing, and through loans, employment, and rent, they do everything possible to ensure that the poor/working/middle class will create wealth for THEM, not for themselves.
And acting like government will do something is bullshyt, extreme economic inequality has placed virtually the entire government into the hands of the wealthy. Now most of our government spending makes RICH people richer, it doesn't redistribute wealth to the poor/working/middle class. Most of our tax policy makes RICH people richer, it doesn't redistribute wealth to the poor/working/middle class. The Fed's entire purpose is to make rich people richer. Wall Street's entire purpose is to make rich people richer (and no industry has nearly as many people cycling through power positions in government and writing government policy as Wall Street has). The Commerce Department is primarily concerned with making rich people richer....as is the Department of Agriculture, as is the Department of Defense, as is Treasury, as is Interior, as is Energy....even the fukking EPA cares more about greasing the rails for corporations than anything else.
At some point rich people are going to realize that fukking up the lives of the 90% is a losing proposition. They're either gonna learn slow (like this guy did, from actually having any semblance of empathy for others) or they're gonna learn real fukking fast. But they are making the world worse for everyone else, it's a social and environmental disaster, it's not sustainable, and that is not even a debate at this point.
I'm going to do my part to keep pointing out how poorly the system is working for too many people in it. Until you learn to reprogram the Randian nonsense that's taken over the brains of the elite, you won't see it.
