[bullseye]

I'm sorry, but that is just entitlement garbage that you are spewing. I don't dispute that there are certainly corrupt individuals in the world, but to cast every person of sufficient wealth as corrupting "the gvmt" and screwing the poor is near-sighted at best. I could give you countless examples of wealthy individuals that have donated significant amounts of money and time to help the poor, both domestically and internationally, although I suspect it would be ignored.

You are entitled to your opinion, but your response doesn't even address the reason the poster referenced the article. Instead, you launched into some diatribe about evil rich folk. Reading the full article probably won't change your opinion, but it does address this "us vs. them" mindset you are in to some degree. It also contains well-reasoned arguments for variation in income, including the one the grandparent post mentioned.

From PGs article: But since for most of the world's history the main route to wealth was to steal it, we tend to be suspicious of rich people

[alexro]

Frankly, to this exactly moment the greater part of rich people doesn't help us to get less suspicious.