And the difference between the rich and the poor is the amount of money held by each.
They're [the rich] people, just like the poor. Given money, luck & intellect, the poor would be just like them.
God damn you're an idiot...
Did you know that Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, and Sergey Brin started out with approximately the same amount of money as you? Why are they rich and you are poor? And do you honestly think that if you were to take away all their money so that they are as poor as you, that you all will have the same equal chance of becoming rich? Man you're deluded...
I am not poor by any standards, furfag. In my entire adult life, i haven't lived on $500 a month you claim your poor parents live on ($1000 jointly)
My parentsv aren't poor, either. They earn a combined ~$25,000 a month. It's just that all but $1,000 of it goes to support their various properties and investments (just as all but ~$450 of mine goes to investments) - things that give people a place to live and a place to work. You have one again missed my point entirely, which is that rich people that make a lot of money, such as my parents, aren't just sitting on bags of money, and can't just give up half their wealth without doing some serious harm to other people (one of their tenants is on government assisted housing, so hurting them directly hurts the poor, too).
As I said, you're too much of an idiot to recognize these things, even when I spell them out for you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=247874.msg2802864#msg2802864
You're either a troll or you haven't left the basement since early 90s. Your parents, who make 25k, live on 1k a month? 500 bucks ea? Out of that, they pay taxes (assuming they own a house & not living out of cardboard boxen), heat, maintenance, electricity, gasoline & auto insurance (or do they thriftily bus it?), car expenses, cable, phone, medical (or do they sneak in through the emergency room?), toiletries, clothes (or do they rifle through the boxes left for Good Will?), and -gasp- food? Just how wretchedly do you live?
*To bystanders: This is all happening in US of A, folks! These people are living on $16 and change A DAY! I used to spend more than that on smokes