The Wealthy Have 'Worked Hard' And Deserve To Keep Their Money

[Marr]

13. I honestly don't know how a working person can say that.

The corollary of "the rich deserve to be rich because they worked hard" is that the working person themselves has not worked hard.

Hard work and wealth are two completely different things. I doubt that a man like Mitt Romney, for instance, was ever even exposed to the concept of selling his time and sweat. I grew up very poor, but in my professional life have mixed with some very wealthy people from time to time.

Their view of money is completely different from that of a working person. For wealthy people, it has nothing to do with "work". It's about assets and choosing where to place the wealth you already have (whether it's from your family or whatever). They don't "work" at all. And I have to say, to someone like myself, who was raised with that whole concept of money=sweat, the way wealthy people operate seems much more like a giant con-game than anything else.