I’m not going to even try to find the quote from Mr Corbyn on this, because if its true its absolutely disgusting and shows just how stupid politicians are.

Many people might agree with him, but I would say this:

1. I don’t have any envy for anybody richer than me no matter how rich.
2. I do not follow celebrities; I believe everybody is good at least one thing, that one thing (e.g. if its singing or playing football) then you could be famous as a result. Your role in life is to find out what it is – ideally well before you get old. I certainly don’t envy famous people, if I was rich I would not want to be famous. This is something that celebrities have to put up with and sure, some of them revel in it but for me it would be a nightmare.
3. What matters about being rich is how you got it. If you became rich by creating a business and employing people then thats good; we need many more people like this. If you became rich by fiddling tax or social security, or selling off the countries assets, then thats bad, because we need assets in order to make the country money to keep us in employment. So people who become rich by selling off assets, including politicians selling off uk industries to other countries, then wondering why the tax then goes to the owning country as well, is bad, in fact its very bad.
4. You could take money off rich people, and there would not be enough to go round. Bill Gates is worth 70 billion dollars, thats about 40 billion UK pounds. If you took all his money and gave it to all the worlds population of 7 billion, thats 10 dollars each, or just over 6 UK pounds. That wouldn’t even buy a packet of 20 cigarettes here in the UK. Lets take this to extremes, lets kill Bill Gates and Microsoft and hand out all the money to everyone. We would be lucky to have £20 each, 50,000 employees would be out of work, and we wouldn’t have any PC’s. Lets go even further and do it to the worlds top 1000 companies. You would be lucky to have £2,000, and would live in a field, no doubt lose something really useful to you (medicines or some other product) and all the millions of employees just made redundant would want to kill the person that came up with it. Doesn’t make a lot of sense does it?
5. We can’t have full socialism, or full capitalism, because neither can work. With socialism, if you get the same for working hard as you do for not, why work? Why not enjoy your life and spend it in the garden or playing golf (assuming you have a garden that is)? Who pays for all the social things, if it was as easy as printing money I am sure every country would do it. There is also a hard side to capitalism that neglects the most vulnerable in our society. Neither can be allowed to work. This is not your average rich persons fault, its the politicians if anyones. After all apart from the odd few most people you think of as being rich are not really that rich, if they lost their job they would run out of money just as quick as the rest of us, especially if it was business they were losing and they had salaries of other people to pay.

My view is we definitely need rich people who employ other people, because without them, we would all be in the gutter. Not everybody wants to run a business and take risks, but without these kind of people, there would be no employment for people who just want a job, and we can’t all live off social security, the country has no money as it is.

The difference between a rich and a poor person is that they might have taken the trouble to learn just one or two things more than a poor one; there is not a lot of difference. Being rich is not how credit worthy you are and buying the latest car; these people are prisoners, in a worse place than people actually in prison because they are tied to their jobs and vulnerable without one. At least prisoners don’t have to work to be fed and still be short of money at the end of the week. Being rich is how long you can live without having to work.

What we really have to watch out for us people who asset strip. Because it makes everyone worse off while the person involved could get enough to live on for life without working. A definite problem for the rest of us. See my posts on money if you don’t know what an asset is or why this is so important.

The next time you meet a rich person, I’m not asking you to be nice to them, just don’t envy or hate them. They are people just like us, they have their place in society, and they are very valuable to us, despite the politicians best attempts to take money from them.

Thats why Jeremy Corbyn’s remarks are all the more disgusting. It shows that like most politicians, he has a total lack of understanding of how the world actually works.