We Need to Talk About Rich People

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50. It is immoral to have folks starving in the streets

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while others inherit wealth beyond their wildest dreams.

Beyond that, the folks that currently have the billions (and even multi-millions), while so many others struggle daily, is that it is affecting our form of government.

Billionaires now own our press, so that nothing negative is ever said about our president (who has on occasion declared himself a king). The extreme gap in wealth leads to the extreme gap in power as most are just struggling to get by as the very wealthy dominate the political systems, the press, the universities, the churches, the corporations, etc.

Most people in this country at this point in time have little hope of bettering their conditions, as they are locked into poverty from birth. It is always more likely that the children of the extremely wealthy are going to have extreme advantage in their own lives because they have so many advantages - they are not hungry and their foods are nutritious, they are clothed and have (magnificent) dwellings to live in, they receive the best education, the opportunities for enrichment and growth; the list goes on and on.

The real question is why we are standing for this. There are so many more of us than there are of them.