>>because you've managed to extract such vast amounts from the economy at a time when the middle classes and working classes are getting poorer than ever. But you know where all the poor peoples money went. Donald and Betsy hoovered it up, and now by some miracle you think they claim the moral high ground by not needing to be paid.

I get where you're coming from- the 1% as a group has swung to an awful extreme this generation.

But here's my issue: unless the economy is structured so that entrepreneurs and inventors can rise to the top to the admiration and envy of all, the incentive to innovate and improve quality for everybody, is stolen away by lumpen greedies.

Just as worthwhile Socialist ideals are corrupted by the self-centered few who drive things toward stagnation, so too is capitalism corrupted if gambling on others' hard work (stock market traders/bankers) is a recipe for rising to the top, hoovering enormous wealth out of the economy in exchange for nothing. Once that starts, vested interests seek to lock in their advantage by starving out pesky disruptive technologies unless indentured to an incumbent. The final and worst stage is when locked-in wealth finds it easier to cannibalize the poor and now the middle class than to risk messing up the nest by innovation.

You know the best redeeming feature I see in Trump? He's a bit of a larrikin who seems to appreciate chaos and disruption. By tying up vested interests in pyrrhic battle, he can create opportunities for a new wave to push past the distracted lumpen incumbents. He's doing it to media today, I wonder who will be next?