I don't care what some 30 year old movie says. Greed IS NOT good. Greed is bad. Greed causes conflict and suffering. Greed kills. And you DO NOT get filthy rich by hard work or good fortune. Those are lies. The ONLY way to become a millionaire is to hoard wealth, to be greedy and take more than you need or deserve. The ONLY way to get rich is to be selfish, willing to steal food from the mouths of children. You aren't a saint because you're rich. You aren't special. You're an asshole because while you're living like royalty, someone out there is living in poverty BECAUSE of you.
The rich need to understand something and it's a very important thing. You only get rich by exploiting the poor. Your empire is built on the backs, on the labor and sweat of the working class. Without us, the rich cease to exist. That deserves respect. That deserves a wage we can live on. That deserves healthcare we can afford. That deserves a cessation of outsourcing our jobs to third world slave labor. We aren't asking for the rich to bless us with their charity. We're asking for what we deserve and if we have to fight, we will do what we have to to survive.
The poor didn't start the class war. The rich started the war by creating excessive poverty with their wealth hoarding. Yet just like our ancestors before us, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street, we will fight. We will not bow down and worship the wealth hoarders. It will be messy. It may even be violent, but the day will come when we rise up against our masters yet again and it will ONLY be avoided by the wealthy recognizing what they owe us and treating us with the respect we deserve.
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