What is hard to take for the more "average" folks, is the situation that surrounds some of the very rich.
When four of the top 10 richest people in America are the owners of a retail chain that is known for paying employees poorly after hiring people too dumb to catch shoplifters and bad check artists and sells crap made my slave labor in East Asia, there's something wrong with that.
When people become millionaires by pushing paper around rather than actually making something, there's something wrong with that.
When attorneys get one-third of an obscenely huge settlement granted by jurors for lawsuits filed by people who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives, there's something wrong with that.
When people are paid huge sums for playing a sport but not for educating our children, there's something wrong with that.
There's nothing wrong with Warren Buffett being rich. Or Bill Gates -- well, there's a lot wrong with Windows. . .
I do know people who have a problem with the rich in general. I don't get that. Sure, if they got rich building ticky-tacky houses. Or if they stole their money. But just for being rich.
People who won't watch the TV show, "Royal Pains" because it's set in the Hampton's, without even finding out what it's about.
Or hate books like The Great Gatsby or Gone with the Wind because they are about the "moneyed" classes without thinking about the other characters. Or the story.
People are people. I know a very wealthy man who sells his wares on QVC who is one of the most generous, decent people I have ever known. I know people who are struggling who are just as decent. Of course there are rich folks who are real creeps and poor people who beat up their kids and dogs. The amount of money doesn't correlate with what's in people's hearts.
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