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In reply to the discussion: What would you describe as being the most EXTREME Left wing position? [View all]hunter
(40,703 posts)People who don't share, people who calculate a price for everything, are nasty.
People who share the wealth or talent they have are the wealthiest people in the world.
I'm not saying anyone should work for free. Work is work. Hard stressful work deserves better pay, but probably at some multiple less than twenty for any ordinary labor. No single human does the work of twenty ordinary people. Yep, I don't think the CEO of a corporation should take home no more than twenty times what the lowest paid employee makes. (Steve Jobs and Chinese electronics assemblers included...)
Great wealth is good fortune at best, criminal at worst. People who find themselves in a position of great wealth or power have ethical obligations greater than ordinary workers. If they cannot share, if they cannot be generous, then it is society's obligation to relieve them of their money hoard for our own protection.
I do not respect wealth, I think the majority of uber-wealthy people are corrupt or utterly clueless about the nature of human society.