Friday, April 20, 2012

Billionaires

Like anyone on Earth is actually "worth" billions of dollars. For those who believe that the rich earn their money, just look at the difference between one of these people and a wage slave working two jobs for close to nothing. Go ahead and tell me that just one of the super-rich is as important as a million other people. They're not. I'm sure many of them are brilliant and have made great contributions. But it's also true that they were in the right place at the right time, they had certain connections or money, they took advantage of others, they had help from taxpayers (loans, infrastructure, education), or all of the above. They did not do this alone, and for each of them there are hordes of others who are just as smart and work just as hard, without the reward. So stop putting the rich up on a pedestal and try thinking outside that box.

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