Should the rich be the only ones allowed vices?

[TheLastStarFighter]

kitler53 said:

sales2099 said:

kitler53 said:

Dark_Lord_2008 said:
Vices are highly profitable to clever rich men in business and government that make lots of profits out of the revenue sources the vices bring in. Let's say 20% of the population are rich and 80% of the population classed as poor. The top 20% usually make lots of money from selling stuff to the bottom 80% and maintain power and control.

your percentages are off.

Never got that 99% crap, just sounds like a catchy name with no substance.

What about the middle class that make a comfortable wage and live reasonably well? The upper class people that make 100K+ a year? They aren't part of the 1% because the 1% is supposedly the billionaires of the world. People with hundreds of thousands or even millions in the bank are part of the 99%....I doubt they give two shits about the widening gaps, nor do most middle class families.

Nah, its the lower income families, downright poor, and entitled/delusional youths of today that are the core of this protest, which isn't close to 99% IMO.

without looking up my facts i think it's that the top 1% have ~80% of the worlds wealth. 

..i may have thousands in the bank but i do still care.  that wealth distribution is and healthy long term.  consolidating so much wealth into so few hands is bad.  it is bad because the power distribution is unbalanced like it was in the industrial revolution when workers wages, hours, and working conditions were heavily exploited by the few with power.  workers of that time had to accept bad situations because it was either be exploited or die. 

now don't get me wrong, things aren't that bad right now.  but you don't have to look hard to see the shifting power.  corporate lobbies have an unbelievable amount of political power.  unemployment is on the rise world wide.  the riches few's fortunes increase while the middle/lower class has been very stagnant. 

in short, we are moving to an age where an individual's work/contribution to the world is massively more impactful then it was before.  for example: 1 or 2 guys can sit in room for a few months and create a game that could entertain tens of millions of people for months.  that's a whole different scale then when entertainment was performed 1 roomful of people at a time. it's not bad as in evil in of itself.  but it's not a substainable future, imo.  or at least not a stable future as we will very likely see booms and crashes on an ever larger scale than what happened in 2008.

so yeah, i do care.

Great post.