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@terryenglish

sure but there are still some pretty gaping holes in that logic.

For starters the evil poor and middle class people dont have any less greed or desire to hoard away money. They are just not as effective at carrying out their intention. So the distinction is mostly virtual.

Second, just because you have a lot of wealth does not mean you hoarded it or took it from anyone else. Wealth is not a pie where someone having more means someone else needs less. Wealth is generated and destroyed constantly in large quantity. It is entirely possible, and even common, to be rich and having generated the wealth you have, in fact its entirely possible for a rich person to have generated more wealth than they own (meaning they have given more than they have taken from others).

So the logic fails on both points really.

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@terryenglish

Hatred for a lot of things doesnt come from "nowhere" so im not sure I'd use that much as ana rgument.

I have considered the scale argument before but it breaks down really quickly when you consider it. Sure if you consider one evil poor person vs one evil rich person it may seem that way, but in reality thats not how it works.

For every one evil billionair there are hundreds of thousands of evil poor and middle class people to match them. In the end the scale of all evil poor and middle class people is absolutely comparable in scale and effect as compared to all evil rich people. In fact I wouldnt be surprised if the collective results of evil non-rich people were to far outweigh that of rich people.

I understand the line of reasoning, but I find it faulty and ultimately caused not by the reasons given, that's just how people justify it to themselves, but rather from the desire to place the blame on any person or class of people that isnt themselves.

Most people dont do accountability too well, always has to be someone else it seems.

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@terryenglish

Some rich do, some rich dont, just as some poor and middle class use it to theri own advantage and some dont.

Humans are shitty, you will find shitty humans in every class and every denomination. But to say the rich are somehow uniquely responsible for such things is absurd given the overwhelming evidence of people from every class acting just as deplorable.

But of course the poor and middle class wont take that responsibility, they would rather just blame the rich. Same story as forever, the majority will always demonize the minority.

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@realcaseyrollins

I have to agree with you there. When I hear people blame the rich its usually just a desire to have some evil entity to blame rather than accepting the general public are accountable for their own decisions. Though the left-wing I feel uses it even more specifically as a way to rally against a non-existant enemy. a way for them to justify increasing taxes ever upwards towards absurdity rather than being accountable for their own financial waste which could easily be resolved if they were more responsible in their spending.

I'm not even talking about social programs. They could easily cut defense spending in half, give everyone including the rich a tax cut, and still have more than enough money to cover their social programs. But that would require them to actually admit that all rich people arent evil after all.

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