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agoodwinsmithSomeone has exactly captured my opinion about stripping the wealth out of the middle class:
http://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2283983.html
in the comments from http://siderea.dreamwidth.org/ . Here is a massive quote:
"Also, can I just say I am wicked in favor of as many people around me making as much money as possible because I sell things to my neighbors for a living. Like approximately everyone who is not a defense contractor or selling things wholesale, does. My ability to earn a living depends on the financial ability of customers to pay me. I am really, really, really in favor of people who want to buy my services being able to pay me for them. There are few things I am more a fan of, tbh.
As a convenient side-effect of people being able to afford to keep me in shelter and food in exchange for my professional services, they are also able to keep my favorite restaurants and cafés and bookstores and ice cream shops and museums and boutiques open, they are able to keep my favorite musicians, comedians, documentary film makers, authors, artists, and instrument makers from having to get boring day jobs that won't entertain me, and they keep my favorite music festivals and theater companies alive. My neighbors being well compensated means I get to have planetaria and movie theaters, libraries and tall ship parades, FirstNight and the Fourth of July, well kept parks and structurally sound bridges; it keeps grocery prices down and civic engagement up. Really, my neighbors making more money... I don't even, to be honest, think of it as their money, so much as "money that will soon benefit me." So I am entirely in favor of there being lots of it."
http://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2283983.html
in the comments from http://siderea.dreamwidth.org/ . Here is a massive quote:
"Also, can I just say I am wicked in favor of as many people around me making as much money as possible because I sell things to my neighbors for a living. Like approximately everyone who is not a defense contractor or selling things wholesale, does. My ability to earn a living depends on the financial ability of customers to pay me. I am really, really, really in favor of people who want to buy my services being able to pay me for them. There are few things I am more a fan of, tbh.
As a convenient side-effect of people being able to afford to keep me in shelter and food in exchange for my professional services, they are also able to keep my favorite restaurants and cafés and bookstores and ice cream shops and museums and boutiques open, they are able to keep my favorite musicians, comedians, documentary film makers, authors, artists, and instrument makers from having to get boring day jobs that won't entertain me, and they keep my favorite music festivals and theater companies alive. My neighbors being well compensated means I get to have planetaria and movie theaters, libraries and tall ship parades, FirstNight and the Fourth of July, well kept parks and structurally sound bridges; it keeps grocery prices down and civic engagement up. Really, my neighbors making more money... I don't even, to be honest, think of it as their money, so much as "money that will soon benefit me." So I am entirely in favor of there being lots of it."
