Charles Koch Defines Wealth

Charles Koch, one of the infamous Koch Brothers, is an oil and gas tycoon, a multi-billionaire, and one the richest people on the face of the earth.  Naturally, he feels qualified to define what real "wealth" is and to lecture the rest of us on the necessity of "economic freedom."

According to the Charles Koch Foundation, a think tank for robber barons, an annual income of only $34,000 places you in the top 1% of all wage earners world-wide.  Wow!  This means virtually everyone in America is doing quite well -- we're all cream-of-the-crop One Percenters, just like old Charley.  So we have no right to bitch about low pay or income inequality.

According to old Charley's foundation, we'll all do better still if we can attain true "economic freedom", which means no income tax, no minimum wage, no social services.  Such harmful things create a "culture of dependency" and hold us (i.e., him) back from even greater income achievements.

Old Charley lives in a rich asshole's dream world.