re: #269 MandyManners

Doubtless the bitter and the twisted looked at all those multi-millionaires in this newspaper’s recent Rich List and thought: “How can any one man possibly have a fortune of 1 billion?”

Why shouldn’t he? It is no skin off your nose. At the very least, you don’t have to sit next to him on a plane. And anyway, if the government took all his money away and distributed it evenly among the rest of the population, you’d be 16 richer and he’d be wondering why he spent his whole life working so damn hard.

Politics of envy.

Actually, in that case, it’s the politics of defending the rich against the strawman hordes of imaginary bitter and twisted people who might want to take away the money of the beleaguered hard-working rich man.