An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed all but 10% of his entire class. That class had insisted that capitalism worked and that only those that worked hard deserved to reap the benefits..the great equalizer.
The professor then said "Ok, let's try out an interpretation of capitalism: Those that work the hardest and clearly demonstrate it will get the highest ranks in the class." Everyone in the class agreed.
"BUT," said the professor, "we need to factor into consideration that not everyone comes into this class with an advantage, just as not many people don't come into the working world with one." The professor then took the textbook for the class away from all but four of the 40 students in his class. "This accounts for factors such as educational opportunities, experience, and mentorship."
When the other 36 students begged the four students with the book to share it with them, they demanded that the bookless students pay them ridiculous amounts for the privledge of reading the book. After all, they clearly earned the book.
Naturally, when the midterm came around, The only people did well were the people with the textbooks. Most everyone else got Fs and Ds, despite the hard amount of work the students did trying to study without the book.
As the professor then told them, capitalism fails because it doesn't provide an equal opportunity for people to succeed, and it encourages those to have to hoard it away from those who need it more.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. Letting the rich bypass giving their fair share in legistlature is on par with letting a kindergartner keep his share toy to himself.
2. The amount of work one puts into life often factors little into what they reap, considering people do not have the same opportunities.
3. The government, which gave you the opportunity to learn, be educated and live in this country on their dime, has every right to take from you to give that same opportunity to someone else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by hoarding it!
5. When the richest percentage of the people get the idea that they do not have to give back to the country and people whose work and toil gave them the very opportunity to succeed that everyone else is entitled to, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.