Maddie, I have to disagree with you on this, but the war we are going to have is not rich v. poor. Not even black v white.
It is going to be a chaotic mess based around states rights and the concept of nationalism versus internationalism.
Of course, this assumes that you won't be too hungry or sick to fight thanks to global economic collapse.
If the constitution is not a voluntary contract between the states, then you are a vassal to the national government. Most Americans don't want that and will both kill and die for that long before they kill over skin color or money.
BTW, I must say this as it relates. Do you wish to be rich some day? If you do believe that money is evil, I would suspect that you would be throwing away your possessions and money as fast as you can to become pure. The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. What most people miss is that this does not mean that money itself is evil. It means if you love money and the love of this drives all you do, you will be consumed by evil, for it has become your God. On the other hand if you understand that money is a tool you can use to do what you want, for good or evil, it is not a stumbling block for you.
Are all rich people evil? I can think of a few (George Soros jumps to the front of the line) and a lot of anonymous 'little rich people' who have more means and gained them both unethically and use them immorally, but not all of them.
So, really... is this thread title the issue? The money, or how they use it?
Why do you single out George Soros? And here I thought you were for once going to say something I could agree with 100%. What about the "smartest guys in the room" at Enron? What about WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers who is still serving a 25-year sentence for orchestrating the biggest corporate fraud in the nation's history. (Frankly, Ebbers must be shitting his pants seeing what a light sentence Mozilo got.) When has George Soros done anything remotely as criminal as those guys?
Maddie, George Soros made his vast riches by currency speculation. He shorted the currencies of 6 nations the worked with political activists in those nations to destabilize their currency causing crashes in all of them. America is #7 and is about to happen. Currency crashes like the Pound did in England due to him, cause harm to millions of people. I say that's very fucking evil.
You're right about those other criminals. But you get back to the basic point I am saying. MONEY itself is not the issue. The love of money entices them to evil for they do unethical things to others to acquire it for the sake of it.
Are you saying Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are evil?
There is no such thing as too much money. There is such a thing as evil ways to get it. The economy is not a zero sum game, and one dollar made is not one dollar stolen from someone else every single time.
Growth happens through work and production of everyone involved. The money that Steve Jobs has was not stolen from elsewhere. It was created by his company and filling a need. Personal computers created whole fields of jobs from manufacturing on to sales and repair. It forced demand for resources that gave miners and other material acquisition companies work. Even gold miners profited.
I will say this. White collar criminals need MUCH more severe penalties including capital punishment for gross felonies like Madoff, Denny Heckert, Kenneth Lay and the like. THey destroyed the lives of thousands if not more.
