Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Everyone steals from something or someone.
When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.