Are wealthy people unethical?

[furface]

Reproducible fact would be showing that you multiple times posted in this thread promoting class warfare which in my ethical beliefs is unethical.

Actually, a more accurate version of this statement is:

In my view you multiple times posted in this thread promoting class warfare which in my ethical beliefs is unethical.

Dumbassery != science

[klamath]

Actually, a more accurate version of this statement is:



Dumbassery != science

Morals and ethics are not science. Get over it. Ethics cannot be a fact.

[Butchie]

On a legal level I have no problem with someone making lots of money so long as it was not the result of bribery, bailouts, illegally stashing money overseas, that kinda crap.

On a moral level, I believe in being charitable, for someone to rake in billions while other are starving is disgusting, I'm not talking about the lazy bums who just won't work, I'm talking about laying off 30,000 people but then building yourself a 100M dollar house, again, not illegal, but definitely sickening to me.

[Black Flag]

On a legal level I have no problem with someone making lots of money so long as it was not the result of bribery, bailouts, illegally stashing money overseas, that kinda crap.

On a moral level, I believe in being charitable, for someone to rake in billions while other are starving is disgusting, I'm not talking about the lazy bums who just won't work, I'm talking about laying off 30,000 people but then building yourself a 100M dollar house, again, not illegal, but definitely sickening to me.

So you hate carpenters, concrete makers, window makers, flooring and roofing guys, landscaper, etc.?

The issue with envy - as you have demonstrated - is that is it so short-sighted.

Do you truly believe that a billionaire's money is not doing something to improve YOUR life and the lives of everyone else around you?

You are so hung up on envy of what other people have, you blind yourself to social good wealth provides to everyone around you.

You live well because "billionaires" make billions.

[Travlyr]

You live well because "billionaires" make billions.

This is only true in a system of honest money. With our system of counterfeiting billionaires are chosen through privilege. They did not earn it. They do not benefit society as a whole.

[heavenlyboy34]

Morals and ethics are not science. Get over it. Ethics cannot be a fact.

It is true that the Scientific method is value-free, but there is voluminous literature on ethics in science (especially biology and medical science). i.e. http://www.files.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/ethics/

[heavenlyboy34]

This is only true in a system of honest money. With our system of counterfeiting billionaires are chosen through privilege. They did not earn it. They do not benefit society as a whole.

Some do still make billions honestly, but you're on to something there.

[Black Flag]

This is only true in a system of honest money. With our system of counterfeiting billionaires are chosen through privilege. They did not earn it. They do not benefit society as a whole.

Prove that they did not earn it.
Did they put a gun to your head and steal it?
If so, call the cops.

[Travlyr]

Prove that they did not earn it.
Did they put a gun to your head and steal it?
If so, call the cops.

We have proved plenty of times on this forum that "elastic" money is counterfeiting of money and unconstitutional fraud.

Alan Greenspan tells us,

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights." - Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom

A study of money proves it. "The Mystery of Banking" by Murray N. Rothbard

I'm not calling the cops. Calling the cops will get you killed.

What we are doing is exposing how they are stealing through irredeemable currency inflation, the income tax, and capital gains tax.

That is why Ron Paul is becoming so popular. When we get a critical mass of people who understand the difference between sound money and unsound currency, then we'll get our audit, and end to the Fed, and perhaps get some of the criminals behind bars.

[Travlyr]

Some do still make billions honestly, but you're on to something there.

I agree. But it is a very very small number of $billionaires earned their money through honest effort. Kudos to those who have, but most have stolen it through the dishonest monetary system of counterfeiting theft and war economics of democide.