Not all who are wealthy are at fault somehow. Many earn it honestly or inherit it legally, not at anyone else's expense.
Not all who are poor and struggling are so due to someone else's fault. They truly have not earned wealth or sympathy in society.
There are corrupt and honest rich, just like honest and corrupt poor. They each need to be treated differently, according to their nature, not their level of wealth.
A single individual cannot use more than a certain amount of wealth on themselves. Whether honest or crooked, the wealthy almost always spend most on others - the ones they choose.
The desire and right to will the fruits of one's work to whoever one wants to, usually one's own kids and family, is the greatest motivation for almost any human work, enterprise and business.
If this desire or freedom is taken away or eroded too much, the motivation of most humans to be productive will be killed off, society will decay and collapse. This is the area where socialism or communism is fatally flawed and must be kept out of. Even highly socialist societies that have kept free choice in this area have always survived and thrived while the rest have collapsed.
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Very true. At heart socialism is good as long as an individual has the freedom to be himself.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Krishna's advice to Arjuna.
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