Why do the richer get richer and poor get poorer?

Question

Why do the richer get richer and poor get poorer?

Answer 1

the rich don't have to spend all the money they make.

Answer 2

Sure.

Why not?

Only with lost sense of direction and purpose of life too.

1 Timothy 6.7

While the poor get short-changed, conned and deceived  themselves in broad daylights with self prides, self rudeness, self image of standing idol,self discrimination as people of different races of self racism with cheap-skate ghostly stories on glory and success of National Identity on tribe with non-existence rights of original descendant with non-existence 30% equity rights on every things in life off the land getting kick on the butts with self lack of knowledge by tribe of a Rudeness Tribe who were children of "Lady in Red" for being "Penny wise pound foolish" in own backyards.

Exodus 23.24,32

What do you think?

Answer 3

the rich make money from the poor, and it pays to keep the poor Poor

Answer 4

It takes money to make money

Answer 5

The poor are lazy and unproductive.

Answer 6

b/c the richer have more resources and the poor don't.

Answer 7

Because when the ecconomy sucks the poor have no money for the deals. the rich buy it all up. Then when the poor get money and the ecconomy gets better  they buy stuff  over priced back from the rich. then you are getting an expensive deal!!! they are laughing all the way to the bank!!!

Answer 8

Its the way its always been.

Answer 9

only one reason dude

"CORRUPTION"

Answer 10

Because the rich likes to distract the poor with shiny objects. Anything that keeps our focus off the fact they are the problem.

Answer 11

Because the rich (as corporate employers) control both the creation and locations (and accessibility) of available employment, decide the actual wages and benefits that they will allow their workers as compared to their management and CEOs, and also control the prices of food, housing and other commodities that they sell.   The average cost-of-living has risen significantly faster than the media income, let alone the average "working-class" income.  

Also, workers' pensions have been cut, health insurance has become prohibitively expensive and exclusionary, and welfare programs have been "reformed"/dismantled so as to provide (so the conservative rationale goes) more incentive to find employment, regardless of whather any /can/ be found.

There is a strong lobby to protect the amassment of wealth by the already-wealthy -- progressive income taxation (in which the wealthy pay higher percentages), inheritance tax ("death tax") and the taxation of investment earnings are all railed against as bad for the country/economy, when the reverse is the case and the rich are in little danger of having their assets or standard of living substantially reduced, particularly by the simple reversal of tax cuts for the super-rich that went through under the Bush administration.  

Oh, and there's a lot of distraction that goes on to keep us occupied with trinkets and fashion and TV and the Internet (like this application, for example...) rather than looking at statistics and gross socioeconomic inequities.  

Plus....how many people have an accurate idea of whether they're technically of one economic class or another?  Many people consider themselves to be permanently "middle class" even as their finances and quality of living have slid into the range of poverty, and many poor people are too distracted or just busy getting by to help gather and agitate for economic reform.