The Facet of Capitalism

     I went over to a fast food places to get a burger. It was the standard kind, and there was nothing really special about it. It was okay but after 5 minutes I had finished it. 5 minutes. From a financial point of view that really proves the triumphant role of capitalism. It only took me just 5 minutes to eat it, but it should be worth more than that right? So much more than that.
     It was the showpiece of over 100 hours put in to create it, 100 people involved in all of the assimilation of ingredients. Just the making of the bun takes so much time and effort, mixing the flour, sugar, yeast, oil, and salt into a dough, grounding it out to small balls, sprinkling them with more flour, heating it so that the bun tops are created, rounding off the tops, letting it cool off takes such an effort. Not including harvesting all the vegetables, raising and killing the cattle, all the things with the cheese, and this is all not mentioning. packaging it, and distributing it.
     All of that work went into selling it to me, all for just a under 3 dollars. So many professions involved in its making, farmers, truck drivers, factory workers, cooks, cashiers. All for a simple wage and 5 minutes of pleasure. Just consider something else, something simple that you get, pickles. When I was out shopping I noticed the back of a jar of pickles and the countries it was brought in from were Thailand, Peru, Romania, all of those countries all of those people all assembled for me, it was flown in for me, it was packaged for me it, all the hard labor of easily 100 people all was for me.
     A lot of people hate the rich but this is a very important aspect that is tied into this. If you don't buy that burger, or that jar of pickles, or whatever then hundreds of people will lose their jobs. The thousands of people like them who went into the production of that only performed all the painstaking labor for the tens of thousands of people like us to buy it. You talk about politics and if you're in a popular modern city then you'll be surrounded by people with liberal agendas. They'll preach about how they hate the rich and how they just steal money from the poor but that's the complete opposite of their role on society.
     They don't steal money from the poor they give it to them. They're not the Al Capone's they're the Robin Hoods. Think about something they often buy: yachts. The amount of money they spend on yachts is huge right? That all goes into the mining of the metal, the black smithery of the shape, the tuning of the glass, the components of the engine, the leather in the seats, the amount of money and wages it gives off is huge. The government once tried to take advantage of this and taxed yachts only to see them stop buying the yachts and a close call of an entire industry falling from that decision. Their money employs and feeds thousands of people much more so than the Average Joe ever contributes right?
     In a free society such as ours with such opportunity some are deemed to get rich and some are doomed to be poor. But I don't believe in limiting what the rich earns to raise what we all earn, that would do much more harm than good.