We have a way that we can measure and judge someone's relative worth as a person- it's called wealth. If someone is rich (according to Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the uber-class-defenders) that that means that they are DE FACTO producers. That they are the greatest influences on our economy, and the rest of us are completely dependent on them. Their wealth is proof that they are necessarily more intelligent, motivated, and deserving. And the more you have, the more deserving you are of that. If you get rich by stealing all of my money, that makes you an even better person and me a worse one, because only an undeserving, lazy, weak, dumb, non-contributing member of society would be fool enough to let his money be stolen. This is why Bernie Madoff should not be imprisoned, he should be enshrined.
This is the same old "Manifest Destiny" argument that American imperialists tried to float back during the Westward expansion. Just because someone is rich, does not mean that they are deserving. Just because someone is poor, does not mean that he is not. Anyone, if given the opportunity, could be a producer. That does not mean that everyone will choose that. But it is pretty hard to become a producer if you don't have the opportunity to try because all the resources are concentrated in the hands of the few.
And I am NOT anti-capitalist. I think the hoarding of wealth is killing our capitalism.
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