Originally Posted by
loosecannon
People don't choose to be poor either. And the consequences of one man's wealth is the poverty of many others.
There are limited resources and limited currency.
Everybody can not "lift themselves up from their boot straps". And even the most ardent capitalists admit that born abilities play a major role in peoples success and failure.
If everybody lifted themselves up by their boot straps the average income today would be $10,000/year/capita.
And that IS limited by resource capacity.
That is zero-sum thinking, and its idiocy is only topped by your faux definition of capitalism.
"Lighght"
- This 'poem' was bought and paid for with $2,250 of YOUR money.
Name one thing the government does better than the private sector and I'll show you something that requires the use of force to accomplish.