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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
However, I do think that nobody is holding anyone else back. I also realize there's a middle ground. Not a middle class, but there's many many many people out there who manage to escape the middle class without becoming one of the 85.
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I don't think there's any one person or group doing that either. The problem is that the middle class is shrinking. The enormous wealth generated and being hoarded by the very elite few is coming at the cost of stagnating the "wealth" of the poor and eroding the middle the class. All this new wealth is essentially staying in their hands too. It's not being funneled down. Any society that wants itself to be great has to have something for people to work for, and a strong middleclass is a vital piece of that. People should be able to have 2 jobs in a family, support kids, and put them to school. That should be a right of any citizen willing to work. If you can't make a go of it while working 40 hours because the pay is so bad or the 40 hours isn't there, something is wrong.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
And if 85 people control the same amount of money than 3.5 billion, I would guess they aren't just sleeping under it like Smaug the dragon. There's literally trillions of dollars floating around out there. So either go get some or don't. Blaming other people doesn't solve anything, but anger is probably better directed at the liberal arts degree hanging on the wall *at least on mine* than Kevin O'Leary.
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This kind of blurs the issue without cause. Look, approach it the other way around then. If 85 people have the wealth of 3.5 billion, that means they control the lions share of all wealth on Earth. So in a way, yes, they are hoarding it like Smaug.