You'Re Not Poor Because He's Rich, Part I

I. You see them on the media, internet and TV, people who say,”Take that man’s cash and give all of it to me!” Not caring that the rich fellow has committed no crime, that the cash the state steals from him is a sacrifice of time. Not caring that wealth is not a thing that can be distributed, that the productive must make it, that it’s a thing created. There is no ‘pie’ that we cup up, but a force that grows and shrinks, and when we take from those who earn we undermine the whole thing. The productive just shrug and leave then the collapse begins, don’t believe me? Well why don’t you go ask a Venezuelan? Jealousy is no excuse for a confiscation sick, you’ve no right to a thing they’ve earned, you’re not poor because they’re rich. II. In the first place you have to see businessmen for what they are, they’re not monsters out to get you or they wouldn’t get that far. We all chose how to make money, they go it on their own, taking high risk for high reward, often risking their homes. Others choose to work for others, and that too is okay, differing methods, but the same goal: To head back home with our pay. Should we demonize a person for the method that they choose? Or do many of us simply fear it’s not something we could do? We don’t have the skills to run the show, their talents we have not learned, and rather then learn them for ourselves we find it easier to burn. Maybe we’re just too risk averse to try surviving like that, can’t stand people built differently, so we hate them and give flak. Maybe we just dehumanize to make it easier to . But if they play clean then we mus face: We’re not poor because they’re rich.