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FIGHT 'RICHISM' BY EMBRACING YOUR INNER ENTREPRENEUR
Lowell Ponte blasts those who discriminate against success
WND.com, July 15, 2018
URL: http://www.wnd.com/2018/07/fight-richism-by-embracing-your-inner-entrepreneur/
Lowell Ponte is a former think tank futurist and retired roving editor at Reader's Digest. He is coauthor, with Craig R. Smith, of "Money, Morality & the Machine: Smith's Law in a Lawless, Over-Governed Age." Ponte's articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other publications.
Americans should take a stand against a form of discrimination that violates human rights and divides our society.
This discrimination is “richism,” hatred of the rich, an invidious kind of hatred and confiscatory taxation promoted by leftist politicians, ideologues, and demagogues.
Like racism, “richism” attacks people for something in their genetic blueprint, scientists are finding. We find racism unfair because it attacks people for traits caused by their DNA, such as skin color.
“Being rich and successful really is in your DNA,” the U.K. Daily Mail reported in July 2018 of new scientific research findings by Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina. “Being dealt the right genes determines whether you [are] … upwardly socially mobile.”
This latest of several similar scientific findings has huge implications for our economy, society and politics. Decades ago in a Wall Street Journalopinion column, I argued that “hate crime” laws against racism, sexism and the like should be expanded to outlaw “class hatred,” especially hatred of the rich.
Business success, I argued, is probably at least partly genetic. “Have you noticed,” I wrote, “that wealth tends to run in families?” And to the extent that such success is driven by genes, it becomes just as wrong to discriminate against a person for being a successful entrepreneur as it is to discriminate against someone whose DNA created a particular skin color.
“American exceptionalism” and success may also have a genetic component, as Craig R. Smith and I argued in our book “The Inflation Deception.” Throughout history, only about two percent of people voluntarily have left the land where they were born to seek freedom and opportunity elsewhere. The majority of Americans, however, have ancestors in this exceptional two percent of humankind.
Americans, we wrote, in our genetic blueprint “carry traits of energy, enthusiasm and ambition that could help explain our nation’s enormous success at business, entrepreneurship and innovation.” In particular, according to UCLA Professor of Psychiatry Peter C. Whybrow, an exceptional proportion of Americans have what genetici...