The Disgusting Super-Rich: Motivated by Selfishness and Greed with Minimal Feelings of compassion or Patriotism

Photo by Tristan Schmurr.

By Sam Amer
When I come in contact with the one-percenters, I don't feel envy; I feel disgust. Dealing with them is like dealing with thieves and burglars. The difference is that the one-percenters usually dress in nice clothes, drive expensive cars, and frequent expensive restaurants. To me, they are still thieves and burglars. They are the ones who stole and are still stealing my money - and yours.

The rich, and particularly the super-rich, are robbing us blind mostly by using legal means. They have managed to control our system of government through buying our Congress. They mold our public opinion by owning the airwaves. Similarly, they decide what we see on television or watch at the movies. They determine what medical systems we have and what wars we get into. They have manipulated our entire system to work exclusively for them. The problem is that they are motivated, almost entirely, by selfishness and greed, with minimal feelings of compassion or patriotism. They don't really care about America, or feel for the poor. They care only for themselves. To me, they are the scum of the earth.

Through their actions, the rich and super-rich are destroying our democracy as well. They are making a mockery of our country, which now preaches to the rest of the world about democracy and citizen representation while having almost none of it. Our Congress does not reflect our views or values; it only reflects the views and values of the moneyed interests. As our country gets richer as measured by GDP or stock-market figures, life is getting harder for the majority of us and poverty is spreading. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. If the total income of the United States is distributed equally among all the citizens, each American would make over $64,000.00 a year and a family of four would live on over $250,000.00 annual income. This contrasts severely with the reality of today, in which the median income of the average full-time American male worker is lower than it was 40 years ago. The rich and super-rich have it all; they leave only the crumbs for the rest of us.

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