Cut-Throat
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Talk about the "standard Kool Aide" . . .
Nope. Everyone (rich, poor, stockholder, employee" entered into an agreement of their own free will. Lower wage workers wanted jobs, and they could sell their skills/labor anywhere in the world. They sold their labor to an employer, who paid them at the time (wages, maybe benefits) and may have offered them promises of other compensation later (a pension). That's it. The bargain was been made and everyone traded something and got something they wanted.
It is not the responsibility of the "rich" to "ensure that the people that made them wealthy are taken care of in illness or old age" unless that was part of the original deal. The folks owning the business made the workers "rich" in exactly the same way that the workers made the owners "rich."
The responsibility is society. The government shall levy taxes to provide for the society. The security and stability of the nation depends on it.
- So we agree to disagree!