Ever since the year 2007, America has been constantly struggling with keeping the balance of wealth between its low/middle class and its one-percenters. One question that I want an answer for is: Why do the one-percenters hold onto their excessive amounts of wealth when they know it hurts the economy of America as a whole? As nave as it sounds, it still needs an answer, a resolve. Without a resolve, I fear that American economy would soon collapse because the middle class has been slowly diminishing due to the greed of the one-percenters.
The simple resolve to this is to simply have the government tax the wealthy again so they would be forced to help stimulate the economy. But of course this is no easy feat when the wealthy want to grasp their money and when America has been established as a Capitalist country. Maybe, somehow, we can convince the one-percenters to be more active with donations and circulating money to the lower/middle classes because the current "trickle-down effect " is not working. Nick Hanaeur says it himself, he has way more money than he even knows to do with. How can we bring the economy back to the state it was in, back during the time of prosperity? .
It intrigues me, how selfish and careless the one-percent and any one can be when they do not have a face for something. The one-percent knows the numbers though; they know how much wealth they have. Why can they not relinquish their pride of having us lower/middle class begging for their mercy?.
After constant research, I have never come up with the answers for the first and last questions; however, I have been able to construct my own conclusion and answers for those respective questions. The answer is clouded within the lines of the feelings for security, and pride. First of all, having an abundance of wealth creates a ton of security for not only the one-percenters themselves, but for their future generations to come.