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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It all depends how the rich got their money.
If they've worked for it, its rightfully theirs.
If they've inherited it, its rightfully theirs.
I think that if it belongs to them, we don't have any right to tell them how to use it, make suggestions maybe, but thats all.
But you are right, some people are too greedy, but that is a trait that people from all walks of life have, there is good and bad in all.
its the rich, (Private firms), that employ so many, and gives us our livlihood, but they do need to be kept in check, which is where properly run unions come in handy.
There is a huge division between the rich and the poor and that is a gulf you will never totally close, it being an impossible thing to do in a democratic society.
Because one man decides to work all the hours God sends and make a decent business for himself and ends up with a great deal of money does not give another person the right to tell him how he should spend it.
I do agree that everyone should have enough, that should be a basic human right and more needs to be done to address the problems encountered by those who find they have too little to really make ends meet without significant stress.However you would not find many businessmen prepared to work for a minimal wage for the huge amount of hassle involved and don't forget also that businesses don't just spring fully formed from someone's good idea, they take years of hard graft sometimes before they bear any fruit.I nearly went bankrupt on at least a dozen occasions trying to build what I have and now I feel I have the right to enjoy what I created from less than nothing. That being said I try very hard not to exploit anyone unduly and I don't know of many people who sit in their offices counting their piles of gold whilst their Bob Crachett like workers toil away beneath them.
Some people are greedy, but you can�t really blame businessman x for shafting the consumer in order to keep his job. I don�t think that this situation can be attributed to the individual.
Whilst large organisations maybe much more culpable, they cannot be apportioned all the blame. If a company reduced its profits to provide a service that would benefit poorer people, then another company would merely take on from this mantle, providing a cheaper service minus the ethical conscience. For example: Fair Trade chocolate would seem to have the same aims that you expressed, but this requires a higher production cost that will in turn raise the price of the end product. The collaboration of the consumer is required to make this an effective alternative.
Unfortunately it seems that morals cost money and as we are a money driven society this will always benefit the unscrupulous. I can see two ways around this: tighter state regulations, enforcing various changes to �big business�, at which point we cease to be a democracy and become a fundamentalist state, or increased education of the populous that would hopefully lead to an improved moral conscience.