Decent people don’t rise to the top in this world. Their — and your — ethics won’t allow it.
replyWhich means by definition that the people at the top of the economic pyramid are the very worst of us.
Yike, this notion is deeply troubling to think about
replyI think by now we have enough evidence to support that point of view. Not everybody up top is a crook, but not having morals or abandoning them along the way certainly makes it easier to ascend.
replyThis is simply the new "Poor people are evil" which was popular for some time.
replyWhen these kind of generalizations sound like they are flattening any resemblance of reality, it is because they are