No one believes being rich is bad. And everyone can accept that there will always be rich people and there will always be poor ones.

The real issue which the poll does not address (in fact, it distracts us from it nicely) is whether we should have less rich people who are much richer. The real wealth redistribution is not taking from the rich to give to the poor. Its precisely the other way around; that the rich are getting richer, and the poor poorer, the former less numerous, and the latter more.

I don't begrudge the rich, as long as they are not taking it from my pile. But I do see a shrinking middle class and a growing poor class, with a very tiny population of people richer than Pharaoh at the top. It is like Latin America, or America's own Gilded Age. But we know how you feel about the Gilded Age, the Golden Age of free enterprise. But you do know how thin gilding is, don't you?

What I can't understand is how you don't see yourself as a victim of this process. It has happened to you, as your opportunities to use your own talents to further yourself are diminished, and the very resources you had planned to advance your own financial position are increasingly being diverted to just maintaining your standard of living. I know exactly what is happening to you because it happened to me.

But I don't blame the poor, they're not the ones who are not hiring me. And I certainly don't expect the rich to take care of me, either by charity or by enlightened policy.