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Bern, Tom - sorry but this is frankly absurd.
What on earth do you think the rich do with their wealth - have it all stuffed under the bed? I find the attitudes expressed rather old fashioned and to say the least ill-informed, perhaps based on prejudice.
A lot of that wealth is held in assets, some of these assets represent investment in businesses, sometimes in property. They spend a lot of dosh on goods and services provided by many people - including members of this forum. Eat in restaurants, drink, maintain their properties and so on.
Love of money, I doubt that too - love of the lifestyle it brings, maybe, love of the security it provides perhaps. In some cases it also provides that adrenaline rush from risk taking - putting the money into enterprises using EIS and VCT schemes or maybe Branson-like escapades. Speaking if which, what about the co-founder of Microsoft putting $300,000,000 into a manned commercial space project to follow his obsession in space exploration. This money is providing jobs and improved standard of living for many people and could open up whole new areas of economic growth and development as such have sop often achieved in the past. Others do a great deal for charity, as Bern says, in fact a great many do but do not shout about it like some.
I am amazed that there are still attitudes out there that belong to the Victorian era and were even dubious in truth then.