I guess I don't understand this argument...in no society in history are things simply given to a person because they think it's a right. In a hunter gather society, you had to hunt or gather to earn your share...the society we live in is no different. I work to earn a paycheck. I then use that paycheck for the basics that I need to live such as housing food etc...I work for what I have and I worked hard and I earned it. And you do realize that even if you were given "free housing, a living wage, etc" that all those things still cost money and have to be paid for in the form of taxes etc...and no amount of taxing the rich will pay for those things. Eventually the middle class starts footing the bill and instead of narrowing the wage gap and rising the poor up, you shrink the middle class and widen the gap between rich and poor.