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

[Nikia]

121. Some rich people work hard while some don't

If you have enough money though, you don't have to work hard or at all, for that matter, to continue to make a lot of money. I think that is a problem, you do have some private business owners working 80 hours per week for their $500,000-$2 million or so that they are making. Yes, they could make less and give their workers raises. They might be able to work less if they hired someone to help them with their duties. If they only cared about the money though, they would be much better off, in many cases, selling the company to some multinational corporation and investing their money so they could make that without having to do any work at all.
I am not saying that such people who work hard anyway are necessarily virtious. In many cases, they increased their own salaries much more than their workers as their business has grown. In some cases, they are real tyrants who won't hire management type people to help them because they couldn't stand to give that level of control to anyone, and would never sell their business because they enjoy having so much control. The point is though that some people working hard could make as much money not working. I think that it is becoming a real problem when people can make more money than actually working. The right says that this is a problem of the poor but it is definitely an issue with the rich.