For most Americans, they make their living by actually laboring for it; for instance, from those jobs that don’t even pay a living wage to those types of jobs that compensate those that work at them at an exceedingly high rate. The thing, though, fair or not, at least it can be said that those that labor for their living and therefore are paid through wages, with appropriate taxes taken out for Federal, State, local, Social Security, and Medicare, are people that represent the standard method of earning their money. On the other hand, there are plenty of other people, that don’t labor for a living in any traditional sense, but instead, are able to use the medium of money to make money for them, through financial alchemy of all types. When it comes to those types of people, it has to be said, that the money that they make, primarily comes though their ability to exploit, to be clever, and to take advantage of financial situations; and of which it is important to say, that the “work” that they so do, basically does virtually nothing to enhance or to make life better for society, at large, but in reality, represents the making of money without doing any real labor for it.
Again, those that labor for their wages in industries in which the labor that they are so providing, is helping to make society better, for example, by furnishing a service, or creating a product, or in their contribution to necessary infrastructure, and so on and so forth, are accomplishing something of real merit. As for those others, that make their money, through those activities in which there is essentially a shuffling of money from one entity’s hand to another, with one party getting the better of the deal; doesn’t help to produce anything of actual substance for society at large, but merely demonstrates that certain people are especially adept at making money without laboring for it, by their cleverness, exploitation, and other advantages that they utilize for their expressed advantage.
The more that any nation concentrates upon or permits financial alchemy, encourages it, or does not discourage it, the more that there will become an ever higher inequality between average folks as compared to those that are especially astute at manipulating money for their own benefit. Those types of societies are not fair, they are not just, and they pervert what it means to be free, as well as to what is supposed to be represented by equal opportunity. There is, within any society, those rules that are written as well as those implicit unwritten rules, that good members of society make it their point to adhere to. That is to say, there is the law and the spirit of the law, and when any society consistently permits particular entities to basically profit upon the labor of another, or to exploit the other, then what is so happening is that one party is making their money from the blood, sweat and tears from the other. A nation that is just, would make it their point, to discourage such activity, and would also make it their point to shame those that do such.