MellowJoe
Well-Known Member
Life is a race?
Is it being first in the race, or richest, that equals "winner?"
Or, is it getting to the end of your life knowing you have raised high quality, kind, generous and compassionate children or had an equivalent effect on the lives of others, that is the benchmark of having lived a good life?
What is YOUR savings accumulation threshold for "so much we should confiscate it"? Does that include a home you lived in your entire life and want to pass on to your children? What about a family farm? Would you cancel all trusts and estate planning mechanisms designed to thwart the long arm of government?
No agenda, and not trying to set you up for a response, just interested in your views.
The race thing was an analogy. Why tolerate an unearned head start. Money = comfort and I was trying to point out that money should be earned. The bigger picture is that labour (human/animal sweat and blood) still creates the value money has, so hoarding/buying yachts etc devalues that.
My threshold? I dunno, a million, 2 million? tops? that seems generous. But yeah, nepotism in and of itself is a bigotry (sad but true)