You-owe-me! Mentality

Are any of us entitled to an entitlement mentality as epitomized in the “99% demonstration” (with this I am referring to the tension surrounding the concentration of wealth, not the economic turmoil blame in the Occupy Movement). To that I reply with a resounding NO! Our country is a capitalist nation, built on capitalist endeavors. Further more it was laissez-faire. And now we call upon the government to restrict what capitalism was meant to create? The idea of an individual starting a business and rising into wealth was the “American dream,” yet once it has been achieved so profoundly, it suddenly becomes a problem.

“That is so unfair,” shouts the 99%, but ask yourself why and where are they justified in crying injustice. Behind-the-scene corporate deals, shipping jobs to China, exploitation of employees: breaching into moral wrongs? Yes. Unfair? Absolutely not. Their empires, their rules. Anything under what they built up, is subject to them. It seems snobby to take this stand doesn’t it? But putting yourself into someone else’s shoes always does the trick. 

Imagine having a love for all things electronic and opening a small store selling T.V.’s, MP3 players, cameras, and the such. This store happens to do well so you expand it. You put countless hours in, and the money keeps pouring back out. You make the your stocks public and make it available for franchise. Its success booms exponentially. Your hard work and the risks you took to start this business really did pay out and quite a lot. Until... one day you get a letter from the government demanding you to cut down a branch of your company and to limit your profit. Your blood, sweat, and tear soon becomes that of the government. It’d be a crime to you, the 1%, wouldn’t it. 

Now I wouldn’t go as far as taking the “Gospel of Wealth” view (“survival of the fittest” in economy”) and say the the 99% are a bunch of no good, lazy bums that deserve to be there. From the 99% comes the 1% after all. But please cease the socialist complaints and be a capitalist.