[albatross]

I feel like a lot of the debates going on in the comments here are missing the forest for the trees here:

Those with much money have too much of it, and those with little have too little. The issue here isn't "the poor need more handouts," but rather, "the richer need fewer."

And on that note, I have heard the arguments "hard work will take you far" and "startup CEOs are the hardest working people I know" too many times to count, almost always from people in tech. Single parents working two or more minimum wage (or potentially less if you happen to be undocumented) jobs to feed their children work as hard or harder than any CEO just to get by with the bare minimum. I don't disagree that those who work harder should be rewarded more than those who choose not to, but in what world is the system we all exist in an actual meritocracy?