MrWonderful wrote:Then tell us how wonderful all the world's poor are.
Nobody said, "all" or "wonderful." The poor are human beings like anyone else. Some are partly to blame for their poverty, but all are victims of the greedy, privileged, parasitic rich.
What are their contributions to humanity, specifically.
Their contributions are as individual as anyone else's. Never heard of the working poor? Do you know how much work it takes to raise a child to become a worker supporting rich, greedy, privileged parasites?? Do you think it doesn't take an effort of will to raise kids even though you know they are likely to become economic cannon fodder?
Do you even realize that the overwhelming majority of wealthy people started out in lower social strata, and worked their way up the financial ladder?
"Worked"? Maybe. But there is a difference between working to make a contribution to production, and working to DIVERT production away from the productive who earned it and into one's own pockets. The wealthy have overwhelmingly obtained their wealth by working at the latter. Rent seeking is often work; it just isn't HONEST or PRODUCTIVE work.
I did. So did many of my friends.
Yes, well, the fact that some are strong enough to run a race while carrying a free rider on their back does not mean those who are not strong enough are to blame for their inability to do so rather than the riders they are forced to carry, or that the riders deserve credit for the running just because some runners were strong enough to carry them over the finish line.