| > you get a regular paycheck No you don't. That's exactly the point. Once you get fired, there are no longer any paychecks. Meanwhile you have spent a limited resource you can't get back while investors have spent an unlimited resource they can always make more of. And that even ignores the bottom line that people who get fired might lose their homes or not be able to feed their families. Tell me which investors risk so much that they become homeless if they lose the money. --- The bottom line if you need a certain amount of money (an absolute value) to survive. 1) Workers get 100% of that from the 1 company they work for. Maybe they can work for 2 companies part time if they are lucky. But losing even 50% of their income hits their bottom line severely. Meanwhile, investors can (as you say) optimize their risk so they are pretty safe. 2) And workers often spend a majority of their income on this bottom line, not being able to save much, let alone amass enough to invest to a meaningful degree. Investors (people who already have so much money they can risk a significant hunk of it) can lose a significant chunk of it and still be comfortable able to afford rent or pay the bills. In fact, they often don't pay rent because they could just buy their home (something increasingly difficult for workers). Imagine if these rich assholes had to spend a third or half of their income, just to have a roof above their head. They'd do everything to change the system, in fact, they do exactly that now by evading taxes. |