Chris
>>When I see very wealthy people in this country, I don't expect them to give me their money. Those people may have inherited it, may have won the lottery with it, but most of them worked hard for it. It wasn't handed to them.
Agreed. Many religions promote charity, but even the Bible points out that it is kinder to teach people to provide for themselves.
I must observe that some of these "wealthy" people do have some say over what happens in factories. Despotic, corrupt governments may know no better, but we should not have to tell our Corporates that we'd prefer workers to be paid a wage that allows them to educate their children so they can lift themselves out of poverty- particularly when it apparently costs $5 to manufacture the pair of trainers sold in a shop for $125...
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
