Too Poor to Be Rich
April 19th, 2006
I was watching CSPAN the other day (oh, the humanity!) while they were broadcasting some guy addressing some sort of convention. The guy was talking about how the income/wealth gap between the rich and the poor in America keeps getting wider. All of a sudden, he said something that really struck me: “The rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer because the rich keep doing whatever made them rich, and the poor keep doing whatever made them poor.”
Rather simplistic, but there’s probably some truth in that rather blunt statement.
Of course, there’s some interdependence between the two. The rich keep doing whatever made them rich, which, often times, means screwing the poor people. The poor keep doing whatever made them poor — often times letting and asking the rich people to screw them over.
I like watching CSPAN, seriously.