Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.

1) We have no idea what this person does. He could be a tobacco company executive (or substitute some position you find immoral).

2) You have no idea what I do.

It doesn't matter what you or he does. We don't tax people based on how much we like them?

maratd: We live in a society where money is allocated with little regards to justice. Of course it doesn't matter what SlowComputer does. Agnostic to his occupation, the law should assist the poor by shaving a portion off the exorbitant sums SlowComputer makes yearly.

> You earn $1MM per year.

That means that someone valued my time, ability and labor enough to pay me for it. That is, the exchange took place because given the circumstance of my employer, my time, ability and labor were worth more to them than $1MM. I was just able to capture the $1MM portion.

The idea assertion 'I spend too much' absent any context is as meaningless as the assertion that 'the government spends too much.'

There are myriad ways to make obscene sums without doing anything for the world, as there are myriad ways to make an incredible impact while making relatively little.

PS: the 'spend too much' situation is the one where the poster spends $500,000 on Bengal Tigers and blow.

I seem to have missed the parent, and a couple of siblings.

Yikes. So scratch the 'absent any context'. Context was there I missed it.