VOX: This Trump voter didn't think Trump was serious about repealing her health insurance

[Buckeye_Democrat]

94. There might be more people who believe...

... the conservative mantra that people become rich entirely because they earned/deserved it.

While that's at least partially true, there's also plenty of examples of very wealthy people who contributed very little to society beyond exploiting others like psychopaths. Plantation owners are an easy example from the past, but there's many more.

Nikola Tesla, who helped society immensely with his alternating current motor, died penniless. George Westinghouse became the "legal owner" of the invention and was richly rewarded.

While I like that Bill Gates has liberal beliefs, he also became filthy rich mostly from the work of others. He purchased DOS from someone else and he later made sure that he maintained ownership of the software when IBM gave him a software monopoly in their PC's.
http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-the-devil/

Microsoft shrewdly included a clause in the agreement that allowed them to sell the operating system to other companies under the name MS-DOS. It was this clause that changed the course of technology history, opening the door for Microsoft to become the dominant technology company of the PC era.

Bill Gates' father was a lawyer.

Much wealth in this country is obtained through ownership, and ownership is bestowed and enforced by legal contracts (government). This country often rewards individuals for their manipulative behavior rather than work that's beneficial for society.

I've heard poor, hard-working co-workers argue against taxing the wealthy because "they're the ones who give us jobs!" They might as well be serfs from the Middle Ages arguing that their entire well-being depended upon their kings and queens.