I have been mulling over a post addressing the issues that surround income inequality, and the often implied, and occasionally explicit belief that every single person in the world could be super-rich, if only the poor weren’t so lazy. I’ve found this topic difficult to approach because many middle and upper-middle class folks immediately take offense at any suggestion that they don’t work hard, or that they don’t deserve what they have. Even though I wasn’t trying to make those arguments, I wasn’t able to make that clear. But something needs to be said:

And no one works harder than the poorest people in America. No one works harder than someone who gets on a bus at 5:30 in the morning and an hour later gets to a hotel where she cleans rooms for $5.15/hour, then takes another bus home, picks up her children, makes dinner and gets ready to start all over again. It is, frankly, disgraceful to pretend that the difference between that person and Jack Welch is somehow related to Jack Welch “working harder.”

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