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
Rassah, it might be that you're own experiences have disillusioned you about the state of the rest of the 1%. Most of the wealth that is acquired by the upper level of society does not trickle back down to others. There are various documentaries out there that attempt to elaborate on this position. There are also statistics that 1% of the population controls some 85% of the wealth. The middle class the comprises approximately 70% of the population, controls just 5% of the wealth.
When there are CEO's making millions upon millions in their respective companies and their are lower level employees going to work every day and making a fraction of what the CEO makes it spins the whole concept of work and reward on it's head. I would suggest you look up the story of HP's failed CEO Lee Apotheker http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/22/technology/hp_ceo_fired/index.htm. This little gem took over HP for 11 months and performed dismally. When he was fired, he walked away with a $25million severance package.