your European moral relativism is showing - only an American idiot would place no fundamental distinction between the wealthy in the United States and the "entitled English" 250-some years ago

The only parallel I draw is the indignant assertion of god-given rights to a system that advantages us and not others. That's fine as long as the have-nots are few or disorganized or live in a Police state. Otherwise eventually they will organize and push back one way or another.

But beyond that, many of the "rich" in this country have become so for reasons so far different than what you're trying to compare to the English, that your entire base argument is absurd.

Whether the English or the great US industrialists or SQL Server trainers earned their every penny is no longer the issue if an angry majority decides that it wants change.