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Supertopics:
Rich People
Overrating Our Abilites
Particular Myths, Group One
Arguments Against Equitable Wealth Distribution
Fundamental Attribution Error

The Claim that Rich People Deserve to Be Rich

Subtopics:
The Rules Are Rigged (to shift wealth to the rich)
Finance as a Money-Skimming Scheme
Much Wealth is Inherited
Corporations Avoid Paying Costs (Externalization)
Tax Inequities
Taxpayers Are Forced to Prop Up the Stock Market
The Occupy Movement (We Are the 99%)
The Rules Are Rigged Miscellany
The Claim that Rich People Are Smarter
claiming that personal riches show a fitness to rule
webThom HartmannCommon Dreams2025-12-15
the top 1% of earners score no higher on cognitive tests
webJonas RoslundScienceDaily2023-02-08
Steve Jobs and the cult of the CEO
webPeter HartFAIR2011-12-01
The Claim that Rich People Work Harder
Claiming that Workers Are Too Lazy to Train for Good Jobs
The Claim that Rich People Work Harder Miscellany
Financial Success as Luck
becoming rich is mostly luck
webMIT Technology Review2018-03-01
The Claim that Rich People Deserve to Be Rich Miscellany
why the self-made billionaire narrative is debated
webPearl PatienceQueen Zone2026-06-18
the great level meritocracy race
webRuben Bolling2015-01-01
some rich people think they're entitled to extreme perks
webJen Sorensen2025-03-12
good habits allegedly practiced only by the 1%
a special first-class place in hell
webDave Whamond2018-02-15