Do you think that a person with billion$ should have more social responsibility than one at minimum wage?

Answer 1

And at least the two richest of them agree! Specifically, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. And they're both putting their monies where their mouths are!

Answer 2

I've been studying the Puritans in some depth lately, and one thing that struck me about them was their ability to form a successful small government for their communities. One of the customs in their towns, was the expectation that those who were rich would provide for the indigent, the ill, and be responsible for doing things like paying for the common buildings to be constructed. They were extremely community minded though, and stuck together like glue. I don't think that the rich should be required to give money or goods for the social good. But I do think it should be looked at as a matter of honor and integrity among the rich, that would be a nice trend for them to start. I'm sitting here laughing at myself. If that isn't a Pollyanna idealistic pipe dream, I don't know what is.

Answer 3

This is what is wrong with our COUNTRY. We are selfish and GREEDY. I was sent an e-mail how the RICH spend $15,000 dollars to have their pet CATS dyed in different colors
The book these came from said some of the paint jobs cost $15,000.

They had to be repeated every 3 months as the cat's hair grows out.

Must be nice to have $60,000 a year just to keep your cat painted

The book these came from said some of the paint jobs cost $15,000.

They had to be repeated every 3 months as the cat's hair grows out.

Must be nice to have $60,000 a year just to keep your cat painted.

That's right the land of GREED and SELFISHNESS.

Oh by the way have you notice how everybody ask for you to DONATE!?

We could/should take care of our people. That's how life is. When a couple has a deformed child (mental-physical) they will support that child through life. I had something done to me at age 5 that almost put me out in the street cause it screwed me up. Most people in the streets are adult children that had something happen to them when they were children that messed them up. We are all different and we each deal with ISSUES in different ways. Why can't people get a GRIP cause their SELFISH!

Answer 4

Yes. The question is how to get them to fulfill their responsibility. Do we use the government to force them (under threat of incarceration), or do we give them the freedom to choose?

Obviously, the moral, ethical, and correct choice is freedom. Forcing them to fulfill their responsibility using threats is called extortion. If your intentions are good, but your methods are criminal, then you are a criminal.

Rich people are people too, and deserve the same freedoms as poor people. To discriminate against them with higher taxes and other restrictions is just as evil as discriminating against a person based on skin color.

Either you believe in freedom, or you don't.

Answer 5

Sure, anybody that works hard and succeeds is responsible for all the lazy, uneducated, unambitious leeches that do nothing. Sounds like the America I want to live in.

@lester - so you consider someone who works hard for everything they have more selfish than those who do nothing and expect others to take care of them. Good to know.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. If they feel the need to give, they should.

Dze, I hope that was sarcasm. Unless they caused the burden by breaking the law, they have no responsibility.

Joemammy, do you feel those "expoited" workers would be better off without those jobs? If I choose to work for minimum wage, wouldn't it stand to reason that that job is my best option?

Answer 7

Chances are, the guy with the billions probably got it from the hard work of thousands of minimum wage earners.

While they might be providing jobs (without benefits or any kind of job stability), they are purposefully exploiting people in order to maximize profits.

Answer 8

Are you talking about evil rich people.

The billionaire has given more than a billion to the people and the people thanked him by giving him his billion and of course the government punishes him for being productive.(they hate that).

Answer 9

America is the land of equals. You can't hold true for one but not the other or else it would be like saying that if one family gets food stamps then all should get food stamps. Would you want the president to get food stamps? I know it's a bad comparison but you get the picture.

Answer 10

No, "social responsiblity" is a way liberals manage to put rich people on a guilt trip.