Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
Every new endeavor involves risks: risks of loss of money, time and perhaps reputation.

When they started out they took a chance, hoping to make it big, instead of taking a "grunt job" working for a paycheck.

Capitalism rewards the one of our strongest emotions...greed.

Most people don't hit it big and most people wish they had.
But you think that if there was some form of wealth tax, these men wouldn't have still taken that "risk"?

There are probably multiple men on this forum who took bigger risks if you were to quantify it.

Your business running off someone else's money doesn't work out? You lose nothing. lol come'on dude pull your head out of your ass. The wealthy aren't magic job creators. This is trickle-down 101. aka bullshit.

I don't really see the risk here. My guess is they were always paid in their positions. I'm not sure how much Bezos invested his own money?

Most of these people are just risking the wealthy's money. It is all relative though. There is no way a wealth tax would ever be enacted where it disincentivizes those going from working class -> upper.

Anyway, like I figured.. you say nothing of interest.