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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Being fair, doing the right thing, let alone following the rules is not how the majority of the rich got that way.
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Maybe so. I often struggle with the thought that the extent to which a business I might own could be successful, likely depends on the extent to which I'm willing to be a slimy salesman. I worked for a boss who promised many things, delivered on very few, billed his customer more than double our salaries, and told us repeatedly he's making no money on our contract.
It's unclear to me what portion of the 1% top earners are unethical, but I do believe it's possible to be wealthy and successful while adhering to both the law and ethics. I'm currently working for a company that appears to be both very profitable and ethical, though it is in the medical industry, which itself is a mess.
In the end, I assume people are human, with varying degrees of ethics, distributed across all ends of the wealth spectrum. There are unscrupulous people swindling others of their money to feed their drug addiction just as there are unscrupulous people swindling others to feed their wealth addiction.