My boss once sat me down and said that the world was all about balance, which is why I need to know my place in the middle class with him. "We're the balance against the poor, against the rich. Both try to screw us over." He's got a net worth of millions. He claims to have voted for Carter, then Ted Cruz. One time he described himself to me as a socialist. Once said he ran a socialist business. Also he uses the term "Bolshevik" occasionally to mean any Russian or Slav (in a negative way). He saw me reading a Nabokov book on my lunchbreak once and said it sounded like a "Bolshevik" name.

A kid I knew in college with a rich dad said society could be mended if the poor used themselves as medical experiments to drive down the cost of prescription drugs.

One time he told me rich people have it harder than the poor, because rich people have to choose workers to hire and some of them could be lazy or thieves.