[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

You mean capitalism? But yes. This is the clearest reason why people vote against their own interest to protect the rich. It’s a distortion of the “American dream” as in “I need to protect the wealthy because they give me so much, and one day, I will wealthy like them.” But it’s a sad reality, as the wealthy give the middle class very very little, the middle class gives everything to them, and upward financial mobility to that extent is more or less a myth.

You get rich by inheriting wealth, in most cases. Middle class fools will never understand that, and the few that do, live like their low income for years in hopes that one day, when their old, their savings and investments may become worth enough not for them to enjoy it (no, they’ll likely die living a middle class life) but so their children might.

67% of the Forbes 400 are self made today.