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Rich, poor, white, people of colour, are all equally irreplaceable.
Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.
If someone is poor in India, they should be able to watch the same films as rich people.
In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.
The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.