If you work 40 hours a week from the age of 16-62 at $15/hr… before taxes you will only make $1,435,200. Less than $1.5 million earned for your entire time at work. BEFORE TAXES. Let that sink in when you try to defend people who make hundreds of times your literal entire life's work earnings every month just because you think that one day you're gonna be one of them.
It is impossible to earn that much without the total exploitation of we the workers. They will never be your friend. They will never care for you when you vote for people who benefit them. You will never be them. You may get some form of wealth if you're lucky, but the era of wealth coming from hard work alone is over. They must learn to pay their fair share.
$15/h is working poor in most places in our country. Any sort of urbanized area will classify you as near destitute. Defending “bootstrap” ideology is ignorant and a symbol that you have absolutely no concept of the modern work environment we live in now. The middle and working class shoulder the burden of the elite as they frivolously waste their money buying social media companies when they promised to send money to end world hunger with a “solidified plan” and when provided with said plan they decide to spend billions more on a website and joyriding to space instead of putting that money to use somewhere actually important and world-improving.
Honestly its pathetic how people like these can steal and exploit our wallets and some of us grovel at their feet like gods, worshiping them like some maggot-ridden and ethically decayed idol.