Comment by your-nanny

Your saying that I do doesn't make it so. You should read more carefully. Look at is absolutely as simple as this: the interests of the rich and the nonrich are systematically at odds, yet only one of these groups have any great power to see to it that their interests are served. A society so structured is unjust, fragile, and generally suboptimal. Such societies lend themselves to demogougery and collapse. One needbt even resort to claims of moral and ethical failure on the part of those who have power to conclude this thing, and yet it is also true that power and wealth have deletrious effects on a number of features of that which we might call virtue, including empathy.