Far too many people desire to give the credit for their success or their positive circumstances in their lives as being of their own design and none other. While we can certainly admire people that have applied themselves diligently to the job at hand, it has to be recognized that all those that truly believe that it was solely their own effort that brought them such renowned – that they are badly mistaken for thinking that, because what America does so well, is to create the infrastructure that allows for such success, and further to the point, because of its capitalistic system, permits those that are successful in their endeavors to truly personally benefit from such.
The thing is that those who have reaped enormous success need to always be cognizant that to get to that place, it necessitated not just the right connections but also necessitated important organizations within this country that permitted them to take their talents and to ride them to a resounding success. This means, at the end of the day, we as individuals should not see ourselves ever as being islands unto ourselves, or if we do, then the benefits that we gain as an island unto itself should be wholly contained within that island and nowhere else. Rather, it is imperative to recognize that we are part of a greater whole and thus we are obligated to do our good part to pay our fair share to this nation, whether that be through taxation or through attributes such as our wisdom, so that we have paid proper homage to that which laid the foundation for such success to be built upon.
So then, as much as those who have a multitude of wealth want to believe it was all their effort, that just was never the actual case, and never could be the case, because wealth necessitates a buy-in from the general public and/or its governance, as well. So too, it has to be acknowledged that our governance needs appropriate contributions from its citizenry, and those who have more should thereby be not just obligated to contribute more, but should understand that they need to do so, and to do so as their tribute and their patriotic duty to the nation which permitted them to have such access to that success.
Indeed, all those who desire to live in exclusive enclaves of prosperity and to thereby as much as possible ignore those who are in need have done so to their own discredit, because the object of the exercise is to see that this nation is a bastion of opportunity for all, and not just an opportunity for the few and well-positioned. This means that those who use all the angles and tricks and subterfuges to not pay their fair share back to the country that provided them with the opportunity to become great, aren’t just selfish, but they also are, in their own way, the same that are inimical to what this nation stands for in its foundational principles, and ought therefore to be shamed for their disrespect, greed, and hypocrisy,