There are exactly two ways to get rich

[The Straight Story]

8. You see - that is not the REAL issue/problem, this is:

Money is a finite object. There is only so much of it out there, like oil, coal, gold, etc.

Since there is only so much the myth from conservatives that anyone can be rich is only slightly true - it/they imply all can be.

But then who would clean office buildings, collect the trash, make our food, farm, build homes, etc?

You will always have a working class, period. It can never not exist. So....the idea, from a progressive view imho is, work to ensure that those who are in that class can at least survive and be able to meet not only their basic needs but have enough left to go places, buy a nice tv once in awhile, etc and so on.

What is happening is that the few are retaining more and more of the money so there is less to meet the needs of those who do the actual work. When someone does rise up and become more wealthy someone else is losing money (since, again, there is a finite supply). Money shifts around.

The wealthy want more of it to shift their way, which they say they are happy to spend to give us more by buying things like yachts, planes, etc. Problem is they want to pay so little to others that the people providing the services don't get enough to live off of. So people are being used and getting less for their labor.

The other problem comes in via investing in a new business by the mega wealthy. They can go in, invest, clean it up (ie, lay off people, cut wages, etc) profit, then close it down (ala kay bee toys) and make more money (which, again, pulls money away from others to them). They are always looking at ways to save money. Or, in other words, keep it from the middle class.

We can have more and wealthier people, less hunger, homelessness, etc - but that means the wealthy would have to do with only a billion dollars instead of two billion.