We must worship them and give them offerings and praise
by digby
Matt Bruenig thinks there is a logical inconsistency in conservative pearl clutching that Obamacare is going to degrade the value of work. Citing this hysterical column by Ross Douthat he writes:
In the same New York Times edition that Douthat’s column appeared in, we are treated to a story of one rich man trying to rent an extremely expensive apartment. He retired very young because of a windfall profit he made speculating on Apple stock and thus no longer knows the inherent life-fulfilling dignity of work. A higher capital gains tax could have reduced his haul, ensuring that he continued to know the dignity of work, but any suggestion I make that conservatives support such a thing is decried as trolling.
That’s because it’s character building for poor and middle class people to work as much as possible. Keeps them out of trouble, dontcha know. They’re a little bit like children or fairly smart dogs that way. You’ve got to keep them occupied. The rich, on the other hand, are obviously superior in character — after all, they have money, which proves it. Not only should they be allowed to do whatever they choose with their time, the rest of us should worship them and give them offerings and praise.
As one of our Living Gods recently spaketh:
“The problem is that the world and this country should not talk about envy of the one percent, they should talk about emulating the one percent. The 1 percent work harder, the 1 percent are much bigger factors in all forms of our society.”
See? This isn’t hard at all. The rich are better than the rest of us. That’s why they deserve to have good heath care and we don’t. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
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