To: Elroy who wrote (364628 ) 12/28/2007 12:46:02 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Lets make it easy. I'm a billionaire, you have an $80k per year income and $10k in savings. You invest $10k which makes 10% per year for your lifetime (not bad), I invest $990 million, which makes 12% per year for my lifetime (also not bad). I don't think so, I just made better investment decisions than you did, and am reaping the benefits of those decisions. Does it bother you that athletes, musicians, actors and other entertainers are getting a larger share of the entertainment revenue pie than they did 50 years ago, while team owner's & business people's share of that same pie has been in decline? And you still haven't made a persuasive case that the extremely wealthy use their increased wealth in a harmful way. Again, Gates and Buffet spending 98% of their fortunes on the public good indicate that the system that allowed them to gain massive exhorbitant wealth is good for everyone as long as the beneficiaries of that system use their wealth for the common good. You got any evidence that that is not the case?
