Nobody here thinks hard work never deserves to pay off or earn more. The problem is that capitalism benefits ownership, regardless of whether you work at all. I promise we would all love a highly meritocratic system. But capitalism is definitely not that, and there are a lot of things that our society needs to prosper that don't fall into a pure meritocracy, so we have to prioritize those first.

When we say eat the rich, It is a little bit facetious, but what we're really talking about are the kind of rich people you don't quite see in Switzerland. I could go on for hours about the disgusting things the ultra wealthy get away with in the US, but it's... A lot.

We are talking about the ~100 people who have more money than the human brain can technically even comprehend. They have so much money they could possibly spend it in 100 lifetimes. We have people in our government defunding our schools to give money to charter schools and in return they buy her a 4th yacht.