Earning a livelihood under the constraints of capitalism is hardly the same as hoarding wealth.
What does this mean? Was life better in soviet Russia under Communism, or as a serf in feudal England?
> hoarding wealth
The claim was that they were motivated by greed because they weren't doing things for zero benefit. My challenge was that it's normal to do things for pay and it shouldn't be evidence of being motivated by greed.
Anyone who has enough wealth to maintain roughly their current standard of living for the rest of their life, and still works in a job with a 6+ figure compensation, is doing it out of greed.
What are you talking about? 11% of Americans (or rather, people in America) are on SNAP benefits[0]. And that's just food; there are lots of other benefits as well. America spends the most in the world on welfare, as a real number and as a % of GDP.
[0] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-receive-govern...