Billionaire Warren Buffett says 'the real problem' with the US economy is people like him

Class warfare is the deliberate attempt to harm one social group to benefit another

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No, what they say is irrelevant.

You're contradicting yourself. "Deliberate" means "what they say." Your logic implies that as long as their harm to the poor social group is not the intent, it's not class warfare. I disagree.

it's not required that we blindly trust business or government

What you're not realizing is that, in this day and age, the separation is largely arbitrary. Business largely influences politics and politics largely influences business. Your distinction between businesses like Amazon and Lockheed Martin shows that you don't understand the way the world actually works. I bet you think Microsoft and Google have nothing to thank the government for either.

Someone needs to be looking out for the poor because being poor means you cannot directly influence affairs. That's why democracy is considered a good thing; because it gives a voice to people who are unable to directly fight for themselves. But a lack of regulation has merged business and politics because both seem to attract the greediest among us. This has turned our democracy into a meritocracy.

Anyone who thinks a meritocracy is better for humanity than a democracy has a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works. The good news is that evolution will continue doing what it does regardless of your or my opinion. It'll balance out eventually one way or another.

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