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[RolStoppable]

Tober said:

RolStoppable said:

No, the message that is blatant out in the open in that quote is that the blame should be pushed on the people who deserve the blame instead of falling for the scapegoat.

It's the same game in every country. Wealth is extracted from the middle and lower classes via asset inflation, i.e. high prices for rent and housing which is a basic necessity. Then comes a political party that puts the blame on immigrants because xenophobia is a very common human instinct that also very commonly overrides rational thinking; the very same politicians often happen to directly benefit from asset inflation. They are the cause of the problem, but manage to sell themselves as the solution despite having no intent whatsoever to fix the problem.

How this works can be illustrated with a cookie plate analogy. Suppose there are four people sitting at a table, each one representing a different class of society: The rich, the middle, the lower and the immigrant. You also have a plate with 20 cookies sitting on the table, representing the wealth of a nation. When it's time to divide the wealth, the rich immediately pockets 18 cookies, points his finger at the immigrant and says to the middle and lower classes, "Watch out for the immigrant, he's going to take your two cookies!" - The depressing fact is that all too often the common people forget that there are 20 cookies in the first place and let the true culprit off the hook.

The culprit?

Let's say I'm going to be brave and start my own business. With a lot of risk, sweat and tears I manage it to become successful. After a few decades of hard work, I become financial independent. I become rich. My family is now safe from financial concerns.... Now I'm to blame that someone else is poor?

Pointing a finger at someone else is never a good idea. It does not matter who it is. Victim mentality never helped anyone.

Your story is missing the part where you are rich enough to own multiple buildings with a bunch of apartments. You then proceed to keep raising the rents every year, to the point where the people living there have to pay you 40-50% of their monthly salary despite them doing honest and hard work. This means that they have no chance to pursue the dream you could go for a few decades earlier, because they have no realistic chance to start their own business anymore, because they are never able to put enough money to start on the side.

When asked why you are charging such high rents, your answer is that all other rich guys do that too, suggesting that your practices can't be unfair, immoral and unjust. This has contributed to today's problem that the rich just keep getting richer while a lot of people are doomed to live from paycheck to paycheck. You belong to the culprits in this scenario.

Your conclusion is very stupid. Pointing out the true causes of problems has always been the foundation of making things better for more people.