Would social equity hurt the rich?

[PDJane]

3. It's a matter of perception rather than actuality.

Instead of looking at the large picture, they are looking at their own narrow interests.

The fact of the matter is that the rich would be safer, richer, and more connected to the world they live in if they didn't hoard the world for themselves. Lots of money makes things easier, but it tends to leave you without a moral compass and with a lot of judgmental anger. The US cannot continue to use 28% of the world's resources for 5% of the population; when you take it down to the 99% vs. 1%, the number of people who are running the show is so small as to be negligible in the grand scheme of things, and that small number of people are vulnerable, in spite of their money...or maybe because of their money.

The likelihood that the economy will collapse from the weight of those at the top gets greater every year, too; the number of civilizations that have gone for precisely the same reasons should be etched in stone somewhere, along with the ways that they collapsed, as an object lesson for those who believe in the Rand theory of unfettered greed being good for a society.