re: So What Did You Miss?
The number of people who have earned their wealth far outnumber those who have embezzled it. It even far outnumbers those who have inherited it.
But all I seem to hear about on this board is the evils of capitalism and an almost universal view of the upper end of the income scale as unredeemable bastards.
I know the reason for this--a moral sanction is necessary to justify looting the wealth from these people--but that doesn't make it accurate.
There are always going to be crooks, rich and poor. Stripping the rich of their wealth doesn't eliminate corruption or crime. In fact, it just ends up concentrating these things in the authority that confiscates and redistributes the wealth.