How bitterly conservatives complain about the high salaries paid to
athletes, performers, or highly skilled workers in critical professions, but never seem to note the injustice of the great fortunes accumulated by the sports team owners, theatrical promoters, or commercial administrators who control access to their work? As one Conservative put it so well in a contract dispute; "The fans paid to see Ted Nugent. Ted Nugent should get paid."

I agree with the bearded gentleman in the dark hat. I can't blame anyone for being greedy or lacking empathy for the unfortunate. After all, we are all that way to a certain extent. But please, PUH-LEEZE, spare me the intellectual contortions and moral dishonesty required to argue that that's the way things OUGHT to be. God does not give a flying fuck about the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.

I happen to be financially independent myself. I live well and work little. Neither do I feel any obligation to share my wealth with the destitute. But I also recognize that whatever I have in life is, to a great extent, due just as much to sheer luck as it is to any personal virtue or any intellectual and moral superiority of my own. And I certainly don't believe that I am entitled to use my wealth as a tool to exploit others, or in a way that it denies prosperity and opportunity to anyone else.

And I also accept that human communities should be organized in a way that they recognize this fundamental injustice and attempt to address it.

"In the absence of proper government, the strong will always take from the weak". --- Chris Hayes