The "living wage" is a myth. No one who has proposed one has ever given a definitive number. Seattle put in a new minimum wage law that has caused restaurants to hire LESS people. Flipping burgers does not take a whole lot of skill, neither does bussing tables. Oh, it is hard work, but the real gainers of a low minimum wage are the workers themselves who gain invaluable employment skills to try to achieve the next rung up the ladder.

What you say about the 1 percenters  is just wrong. Many I know are extremely generous, both liberal and conservative. They are also successful, know what works AND put their treasure where they think it will do the most good, also toward either liberal (social justice) or conservative (self sufficiency) causes.

Without investors - who are risking their own money, not some distant bureaucrat who says you can only make this much, anything more belongs to me to do as I or the Government deems worthwhile - we would not have the most free economy on Earth.