[TheRealThing]

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A person working for minimum wage has a job. A "financial specialist" working for Goldman Sachs has a job. If you are equating the two in terms of vulnerability, power, satisfaction with things as they are, get back on your mower and whistle into the wind.

So though the Lord says the love of money is the root of all evil, the Sombrero says money is everything, that about right? Every man can't be a king, but every man can live a life of honor. There is nothing oppressive or lowly about working with one's hands for a living, especially in this country, where the most basic existence is regal in comparison to other lands. The Lord was a carpenter as I recall, and didn't even have a place to lay His head at night; Matthew 8:20 (KJV)
20 "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." And He said; 'the poor you will always have.'

Here is what I say. The ladder of success is a hard climb, whether for the farmer or the financier. That is the natural way of things. But the liberal, now there is an enigma for you. The liberal would circumvent the rungs of that ladder and merely build (using taxpayer dollars) an escalator so everybody who didn't feel like working could just ride to the top. You're in the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren wing of the party?