Hi, Glenn- I think it's more the rich forget that they are a part of the same body as the poor. In the knoweldge economy, the rule is that we all prosper together or we all go down the tubes together; one sector prospering at the expense of another doesn't work long-term.
It comes down to the difference between a material good and a spiritual (i.e., non-material) good. With material goods, the more you share, the less you have; the more you use it up, the less you have. Think coal, or the oil of the Middle East. With spiritual goods however (knowledge, education, joy, love; think Apple Computers) the reverse rules apply: the more you share, the More you have; the more you use it, the More you have. Because we have lived in a material-based economy for so long (slaves, oxen, horses, coal, oil, uranium, whatever) we think the old rules still apply when in most cases they no longer do.
eg witness these exchanges of emails!
Love, Dad
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