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Originally Posted by cleanspeed1
This has been all out class warfare on the middle class and poor. Wars are started by rich people and fought by poor and working class people.
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Actually, wars are started by governments. But it is no coincidence that virtually all the people in power in any government are wealthy and nearly always are they also lawyers.
Class warfare is based upon politics. The Conservatives think everyone is lazy and the Liberals think everyone is stupid.
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Most, if not all, economic policies benefit the top while crushing everyone below it. (etc.)
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Actually most economic policies are designed by political parties. A political party is essentially a gang of people that aspire to wield power over others. Politicians (who basically represent those parties)
owe favors and influence to those who contributed to their election campaigns.
I'm mostly not disagreeing with you, except to say that the existence of the wealthy is not the problem. Societies that promoted class warfare against the wealthy usually ended up as bloody revolutions. And once those revolutions occurred the poor were often worse off than they were before them. Again,
you cannot dismiss or ignore the role of government. If things are going badly for a country, who else is to blame but the government? The government has all the cards, so to speak. So why blame it on the rich?
I'm sure there are plenty of wealthy people who do not lust for power. There is a certain bias in thinking that all rich people must look down upon or are inciting a war against those who are not wealthy. Usually the desire for power and the desire to make or to have money coincide,
but they are not the same thing. In other words, just because there are rich people does not automatically make them the enemy of the middle class or the poor, nor the source of all their problems.