Reply #25: It is short-term, but that's because the point is to gain control of all the wealth. [View All]

[Selatius]

If the rest of the economy withers on the vine, that's OK as long as all the money that was sucked out ends up under your control. We are talking about reverting back into a feudal mindset as far as business goes. More enlightened thinkers realize that money must circulate throughout the economy like blood through the body, but some people have a feudal mentality, and it seems those who were born into wealth seem more predisposed to the feudal mindset than those who worked to become wealthy from scratch.

I must say, as an aside, most of the wealthy people you find in the top one percent in America were born into wealth. Only a small minority of them ever became wealthy through their own labor and cunning. The rest inherited their wealth and used it to increase their wealth further.