"I’ve always found it puzzling that the term ‘working class’ is derogatory or said with a sneer, as if that class of people are of a ‘lower’ strata.
How can any society consider anyone who does not belong to the ‘working’ class elevated above them?
Look at the men who have created vast empires, did they not consider themselves to be of the ‘working’ class? They may have controlled millions or billions of dollars, may have played hard so that they were also called playboys, but they were not ashamed of working.
Only the following generations, those who have no appreciation of the value of money, consider work to be humiliating.
I am not against children inheriting vast fortunes.
I am against those parents who do not instil a proper value system in their children. If the child of a wealthy family has the talent and inclination and wishes to be a philosopher or artist, that too is productive. To take pride in not being productive is like being crippled, I think."
