Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "And you wonder why people in this country are angry?" video.

@ThreeFingerG "the ingenious ways it is possible to yield money" Bootlickers are just sad. You are hanging on a turn of phrase because I didn't feel like pointing out the "clever" ways that they make sure that all the money goes to themselves and very little to those without whom they'd have nothing. As Abraham Lincoln reminded us, capital is the fruit of labor, it could not exist unless labor existed first, and it deserves the higher consideration. And this "ingenious wielding of wealth" is, in many cases, ways to say that the people who earned them the money get nothing or just enough over nothing to keep them desperate.
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@ThreeFingerG For the sake of argument, let's assume that you're right and billionaires really are hardworking people who put in all these hours. Never mind the fact that once you get rich enough, you bring in money so fast that it's nearly impossible to spend it all and depending on how your wealth is amassed, your kids get it all tax free, but do you really think that the average billionaire works thousands or millions of times harder than the average worker? The ones who have seen stagnant wages while productivity doubled. "Thank you, sir, may I have another?"
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@ThreeFingerG So, you insist that you are the "liberty lover," but you think that you have the exclusive rights for the usage of a word used for people who kiss up to the boss? Self-awareness isn't your strong suit, is it? Re: whose onus it is, funny that every time workers try to do just that, the "liberty crowd" uses the power of government to intervene against us. The only "freedom" you value is the value of the rich to lord it over the poor.
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@hadguy1 He didn't become a millionaire until he was 75 and his book became a bestseller. Hardly an example of someone exploiting others.
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@DaveB-w2i No, a lot of it is about gaming the system. In 1980, there were 13 billionaires in the United States. Today, there are nearly 800. Did they suddenly start adding more wealth, or did they start changing the rules to concentrate wealth at the top. "There is a class war going on, and it's my class that's winning." Warren Buffett
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