Are people who believe in becoming super-rich from eazy money equate to wanting people to work for free?

No, I have never thought you wanted to enslave people, you just want to be super rich without doing any work.

Your supposition doesn’t work. Just by getting people to work for free or for very low wages does not make one wealthy. To get wealthy YOU must do some work!

I’m not sure what “Easy money” means in this question. Does it money that was inherited? (IN which case SOMEONE worked for it even if it wasn’t you). Or do you mean winning the lottery? (which is easy money in a sense), Or do mean something like the guys who started Google and worked hard on it, but now are wealthy?

“Easy money” is the key here. I have no problem with people being (or becoming super-rich), although I think that with wealth comes some responsibility to the community.

@elbanditoroso I’m not sure either.

Yes.

Money is a claim on wealth, but one doesn’t need to create wealth in order to acquire money.

A hedge fund can “make” millions just from buying and selling stocks and commodities, but nothing is actually created (resources are actually consumed instead).

One can live off capital gains—or other forms of rent extraction.

In each case, nothing is produced or created (if anything, energy and resources are consumed in the process) in order to acquire money, with that money then used to claim real commodities and services created through the very real work of other people.

And ours is a society where an ever growing percentage of wealth is going to those doing no productive work.