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"So to bring it back around to the actual point: To say that someone "earns" something suggests that they gain it deservedly. To me that seems to ignore the realities of how they got to be in such a privileged position, and suggests that the person at the bottom equally deserves to be there."
And there you have the issue right there: Some people really DO think we have full control of our lives and if it goes titsup we deserve it, and that people who got massive inheritance and can live of the interest equally deserve it. That's of course taking it to the extreme.
I don't mind others having more, but I can't stand people who just want to work being left out as wages are too low, housing is too expensive, studying is too expensive, in other words the whole social mobility is going to pot as some people are unwilling to share their pot.
Quite a few rich people are of course not like that, but the current Tory lot is, and they're selling public assets (eg OUR STUFF) with no gains to us and gains to them (like it's just THEIR stuff)