>Part of solidarity is that while we are all equal before God or the law or whatever pushes your button, in real life people are blessed with different skills and abilities that society can draw upon and value appropriately. So the porter accepts that the physician receives and deserves a bigger share of society's economic power. Similarly, physicians accept that with great wealth comes great responsibility for more than just themselves. So physicians make house calls to elderly ladies who they know cannot pay for service and cheerfully answer calls in the night because a child struggles to breathe. This solidarity begins to fail if one group systematically draws money to itself in exchange for very little of value to society, or (for example) grasps a one-off bumper profit by offshoring jobs that used to keep fellow citizens occupied. Remove job opportunities and purpose and you're setting up society to fail IMHO. Seems strange that 1%ers and others who are so proud of their cleverness and prowess, cannot see this elephant in the room.

Well said.

Tamar