BEN STEIN: "It's always been true that a very tiny majority of the richest people in the world control an enormously disproportionate amount of the wealth and the poorest people controlled a very, very tiny portion of the wealth. But, you know, the way the media has been playing this is as if there is a finite amount of money in the world and that if rich people have a lot then poor people have less. But that's not the way it works out. If the rich people got rich by starting businesses and starting new technologies that gave more employment, more productivity, more wealth to the other people, then everybody gets richer.
That's a big "If". How does it work when they don't? Tell us Ben.
The other big problem with that theory is, they don't create jobs. There are not enough people with the money to afford what those jobs might produce.
Whose going to build a factory to produce something nobody buys? You have to have a large group of people, we generally call them middle class, with enough wealth to allow them to spend some money beyond food and absolute necessities.
There is not a finite amount. Rich people getting rich does not make poor people poor. "
