It makes no sense to give money to the poor if they don’t know how to use it.
Poverty does not equal incompetency…most poor people are equally capable of handling money responsibly…the vast majority of the poor are not poor because they are irresponsible, they are poor because our system is geared toward a pyramid structure…the further up you go the fewer positions and vacancies there are.
The structure, by necessity, requires a high volume of ‘ workers ‘ at or near the bottom of the pyramid…most of which will never be allowed to scale to the higher levels no matter how responsible or capable they are.
| Suddenly, a man you don’t know shows up and demands half of your silver. You ask him why you should give it. He says, because it will help the poor folk of our town. You protest that the poor folk didn’t grow the wheat - you did. |
Very few of the wealthy got there without the labor of the working class…and/or the manipulation of the ‘ working poor ‘…
yes, the farmer deserves to reap the rewards of his labor…but…was it his labor, or the labor of migrant farm workers?
I believe a man who ‘ invests ‘ in a business deserves the lions share…he is the one who took the risk of losing his money on a potentially bad investment…he was the one who created the opportunities for employment for others…yes, he deserves to be well-off.
But…to what extent?
How much money is rationally fair compensation for that investment?
If a person invests ( risks ) $500.000…what ‘ reasonable ‘ return should he expect?
What if he made 6 bad investments prior to hitting the good one? Then, how much should he be compensated?
Should he be allowed to recoup his previous losses first, before reasonable compensation takes effect?
Whatever reasonable compensation comes into play…whatever is left should funnel downwards to those who helped him recoup his losses and achieve that return on his investment.
ie.
a person invests $500,000…has previous un-recouped losses of $600,000 on two other ventures…he hires 50 workers…these workers generate $23,000,000 in profits over the next 12 years…
the investor recoups his $600,000 losses…and his original $500,000 investment…and is $12,000,000 in the black…
$1,000,000 a year in clear profits…
a more than reasonable return on the original investment…
the plant then becomes employee-owned…
and those employees are now working to create profits for themselves.
The only problem with this scenario is….greed…
there, unfortunately, is never a place of having too much money.
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