[conservativemusician]

Could you elaborate?

[Age of Reason]

Could you elaborate?

Money gives you power.

Power can be used to achieve more power.

Were this not so, of what use is power?

Doesn't the richest player in monopoly dominate the board, eventually driving the other players to ruin?

Such is the tendency of unchecked wealth in real life.

A thousand and more years ago, land was wealth.

The more land someone acquired, the more power they had, and the more land they could take from the less powerful.

Unchecked, except by the few equally as powerful, the noble class and feudalism evolved.

If people today were allowed free reign to use their wealth to accumulate more wealth, we would have a return to feudalism, except that today's wealth is not symbolized by crenelated walls--so if you identify feudalism with castles, vast domains, and chain mail, you might miss the modern variety.

[Age of Reason]

However, I do support capitalism and the accumulation of great wealth.

Here's why:

There's too many people and not resources enough to ever hope that everyone might live a happy life.

So the only chance at true happiness anyone has, is to become one of the few mega-rich.

Without that chance--slim though it is--we are all doomed to a miserable existence.

(Though one of the great ironies of life, is that the majority of the mega-rich don't know how to use their wealth to achieve real happiness, becaues they've been too obsessed with making money for the sake of ego.)