The thing is, money represents resources. If we hold that a person is free to do with their money as they wish, then they are also free to do with their share of the worlds resources that money represents as they see fit, even if that screws everyone else.

Indeed, to go to the great cultural bedrock of society – comic books 😉 – one could argue that even just sitting on one’s money is wrong. As we see in spider man, he doesn’t have the choice of just not using his powers and letting the world go to hell. “With great power comes great yada yada…”

Money is pretty much the same thing, being fairly easily converted to power.

It’s things like this that stir the socialist bits of my being… Do I trust anyone ( besides myself, of course ) to be responsible if given super powers? Not really. Do I trust anyone ( other than myself, of course 😉 ) to be responsible if super rich? No, not really.

Part of me really believes that no one should be allowed to become too wealthy, to have too much a slice of the global pie, and cases like this confirm it. That said, the individualist in me also is dead set against everyone having an equal sized slice of pie no matter what.

The question is how do you stop someone from getting “too rich”? And if you can, how do you make it fair?

One of those things I’ll have to work on when I’m supreme world dictator 😉 😀