Do the rich need the poor to exist in order that they may feel wealthy?

Answer 1

There is a grain of truth to this. I once worked for a CEO that was born rich and inherited the company after his father-in-law died in a plane crash.

He really believed that the people who worked for him deserved their station in life. And he would have paid them a nickel an hour if he could have gotten away with it.

Answer 2

First, Replace 'feel' With 'Stay'.

Secondly, They Keep You Poor To Produce For Them.

Thirdly,....From The Rich, Down To The Fools That Are Not Aware They Are Enslaved And Keeping The Rich Wealthy......

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Answer 3

I do not think the rich need the poor to feel wealthy. Usually the wealthy know where they are, the better people who are rich do not look down on anyone.In fact it is those who have just come into money who need the poor, so they can feel wealthy.

Answer 4

No one ever said that life is fair, and on that account I guess you are right. Look at it this way though..most of the people who became wealthy due to hard work, big risks and well..luck, continue working hard until the day they die. There are also those who did not become rich because of their hard work, or that they did but once they became rich they also became really really greedy...! They exploited individuals at the hardest parts of their lives, or even killed entire populations in the name of profit. THAT is unfair, inhumane and horrible and yes i despise those people...the problem is that according to me..a vast majority of the upper class is of that kind..Not everyone is like that, and if I see a rich man who gained his fortune using noble means, I will applaud him. But I believe this is the exception to the rule...Finally, there are also those kids who come from a wealthy family and though they have never worked one day in their lives-most of them at least- enjoy the best of lives, while there are children dying every single day due to poverty..I will not attempt to decide whether that is fair or not-as we said life isn't fair- but when I see spoiled children who take everything for granted and treat everyone else as rubbish I get really really pissed off...

Answer 5

Yes, if we all had the same as Bill Gates, we'd think that's the way it was supposed to be.

On the whole, the American poor are in a lot better shape than the African poor. Our poor often -- not always -- have options and are not clamoring for clean water and a cup of maggot infested rice.

But because there is such wealth exists in America, it creates an enormous disparity between the haves and the have nots.

Answer 6

yes. but the "forgotten" people are the middle-class tax base that supports both ends of the spectrum (and are punished tax-wise once they try to "break ranks" and move beyond the middle-class. If you think I'm joking, study it yourself, the "goal" is to make the middle-class people want to "jump the fence" but the tax hurdles are VERY high and will cause a middle-class family to be HEAVILY taxed before they even have the opportunity to try to jump the fence (there are even best sellers out there right now talking about the difference "classes" of our society and telling parents of the "upper" spectrum how to keep their kids away from the middle or lower spectrum. It's not the high end of the financial spectrum that supports the lower class (which only a fraction of their incomes would easily do to provide VERY comfortable lifestyles and good schools , they can afford CPA's to find every loophole available to avoid paying as much as the "middle-class" ) . Why do you think they all fight a standard percentage income tax? As a middle class person myself, I have no choice...............

Answer 7

No. Without the rich, the poor would not have anyone but themselves to compare themselves to and therefor know that they are poor. It is the poor who need the rich...

Answer 8

The rich need the poor to MAKE them rich.

A rich man owns a factory. He pays his workers £20 a day yet each man makes £100 of goods per day, which the rich man keeps to sell. Thats £80 profit per day for the rich man, who doens't even have to get out of bed to make this money, just because he owns the means of production - factory, tools etc.

The only people who are willing to work in his factory for £20 per day are the poor, obviously. So the rich man needs them. He also needs them to stay poor enough to want to keep working in his factory because if they suddenly managed to become rich they would tell him to stick his job where the sun does not shine and he would be out of workers.

When the workers seem to be doing well and the rich man is having trouble finding people to slave in his factory for £20 per day, he bungs the government some money amd persuades them to open the floodgates to poor immigrants, who swarm into the country, taking "undesirable" jobs and doing them for low wages. this provides the rich man with the labour he needs to keep making himself rich. It also drives wages down for the indigenous population so they can not afford to be so choosy about the sort of work they do and the bosses can keep their wage bill down. Result - rich get richer, poor get poorer.

Answer 9

Yes. My friend, that is exactly why the rich ARE the rich and the poor ARE the poor.

Without one, the other wouldn't exist either.

Answer 10

Some may feel that way that's why they're the snooty rich who put their noses up at the poor.