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[Tober]

RolStoppable said:

Tober said:

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.

Ok you generalize all rich people and trow them in the same bucket, labeling them as the problem. Then take this opinion in justifying my take as 'being very stupid'.

If you like a fair and open minded discussion I'm all here. But your response does not appear to be that open minded, so let's leave it at this.