Today’s rant is a note to the unreasonably wealthy:
Many of you earn more in a week than you can possibly spend in your lifetime, and you own so much that all of your descendants for the next four generations will be set for life.
Do you realize it’s in your own self-interest to “redistribute wealth”? It won’t cause you to live in poverty. On the contrary, it will increase your wealth, because more people will be able to afford to buy the stuff you make, or the services you offer.
Do you recognize that people who are homeless, or food-poor, or can’t afford healthcare or a shack to live in, won’t be sending you any cash for cell phones, trips to Disney World or birthday gifts for their friends or kids?
Perhaps you could consider voluntarily, constructively redistributing your own wealth? Can you think of ways to help people to live above the level of “just surviving”?
Maybe, for example, you can pay them a living wage, so they could work ONE job instead of three? With all that spare time, and a little more money, think of all the things they’ll be able to do and buy!
Or maybe you could advocate for separating health care from employment, so if you fire them or they get sick it’s not a death sentence? Dead people don’t spend much, as I understand it.
How about lobbying the government to put a proper “safety net” in place as in nearly all of Western civilization outside the U.S.? Then you can lobby the government to increase your taxes a bit, so that only three generations of your descendants will be set for life instead of four.
Maybe if you reinvested more money into your businesses instead of your own salary, you could justify hiring more people who could then buy your products. You’d be letting your wealth “trickle down” instead of hoarding it.
In fact, a livable minimum wage, a safety net, and universal health care are just a few of the ways you can redistribute resources.
Think of it as an investment. The money you part with today will come back to you tomorrow.
