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by kevin_b_er 848 days ago
"The system" for you and me, not the system for those at the top. They'll maintain their wealth.

You're presuming the rich care about "the system". That they have morals or ethics. They do not.

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>You're presuming the rich care about "the system". That they have morals or ethics. They do not.

Of course they have. You're parroting some low quality extreme left talking points. Rich people are people just like you and me, with their own motivations, goals and internal values. Dehumanizing them won't solve society's problems.

They don't have any wealth in the system you're projecting.

Wealth is the ability to trade with people. If there were somehow only 10 "employed" people in the world, then the economy is 10 people big, which means none of them are wealthy.

One way to see that this scenario is absurd is that it's literally the plot of Atlas Shrugged.