An Ugly Business

Friday 10 February 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Envy sure is an ugly business. Gawker:

The news of the day: America is poor, but wealthy people are still building themselves huge mansions. Is it wrong for someone to build an obscenely luxurious home for themselves with their own legally obtained money and means? Yes. It is wrong.

Some people think that if the money is legally made, it is the right of the moneymaker to use that money how they see fit, and it’s not anyone else’s business. Well, if you believe that you’re some sort of Randian libertarian, and you should not be reading this website. Most reasonable people accept the fact that society itself contributes greatly to the ability of rich people to gain and, crucially, hold wealth (that is, the rule of law that society enforces ensures that rich people don’t all immediately get robbed and guillotined, as has been the fashion at various points in history); therefore, rich people owe a great debt to society. More than others do.

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Which is to say, the rich are welcome to live well, but not ridiculously well. Aside from the hundreds of lives of poverty-stricken Bangladeshis or whatever that likely could have been saved had our nation’s billionaires deigned to downgrade from a massive mansion to a mere McMansion, the people, eventually, just won’t stand for it. Your monuments to excess will become beacons for the pitchfork-wielding mobs, rich folks. [Emphasis added]

The political philosophy of the left is based on nothing more than pure envy. They have no regard for the poor; they simply want to steal from the rich via the force of government, and use helping the poor as their excuse to help themselves to other people’s rightfully earned wealth. And if that doesn’t work they’ll resort to “pitchfork wielding mobs” in order to procure it. They’re nothing more than petty thieves who seek only to use the legitimacy of government to take from others what they wish.

That said, Mr. Nolan, your pitchfork ain’t shit against my AR 15, so bring it.

2012-02-10  »  madlibertarianguy