You need profits or companies will go out of business. You need profitable employers so that they can create employees. Has any poor person ever offered you a job?
Nevertheless, there are still many politicians (and citizens) who do not understand this. They play the class warfare game and the country loses as a result. (Have you checked out Latin American economies except for Chile?)
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