>>Not so - the have nots have less. Check the statistics for the last 30 years.
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>>And this creates the imbalance which will have to be addressed once, or it will address itself.
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>So prove yourself superior and give YOUR money all away.
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>Unless you're just as pitifully selfish as those you criticize...

I have worked hard for my money, and haven't earned it by arm-twisting foreign governments, bribing, evading tax, paying politicians to make laws to favor my business, polluting Earth, paying my workers as low as I can, creative accounting etc etc.

As you said in the other message, capitalism takes human imperfection into account and passes laws to protect common good. Somehow this usually comes post-festum; one of the major critics of the system was that it's very hard to get private initiative to invest into projects which take more than a few years. The growing gap between the rich and the poor (and between rich and middle as well) is still compensated, to an extent, and is not yet perceived as a problem, probably because it was spreading gradually. But it doesn't make it less of a problem.

And, IMO, charity is not a solution. One who gives has also the option not to give; one who receives is at the mercy of others, and thus not an independent human.

The system needs to be changed back to where it was when capitalism still had its most important component: competition. With the fall of communism, it has none, and it feels it can revert to its true nature, which may, in due time, give birth to a new set of social theories, movements and, who knows, revolutions. Rather than seeing that happen, I'd prefer seeing capitalism more fit for humans. I know we're exploited, but there needs to be some measure to it. And exploiting third world countries to keep the local workers at peace is not a solution in the long run.