People being upset is a poor sign that things are actually wrong, or that they could change. I'm upset when natural disasters occur, but I don't blame anyone f

People being upset is a poor sign that things are actually wrong, or that they could change. I'm upset when natural disasters occur, but I don't blame anyone for them. I'm upset when it's too cold outside, but I don't blame anyone for that. The problem is that, when it comes to the economy, people for some reason think that it's nothing like a force of nature - they (sometimes subconsciously) assume that if one person is rich, that means another person is poor. Or even, that if someone is rich, than that has something to do with whether she "deserves" it. That's close[1] to being as nonsensical as asking if someone "deserved" to die in a hurricane. [1] I write "close", because this only applies in a good capitalist economy. There are of course ways to cheat, whether by directly stealing money from other people (in which case you'd go to jail in a well functioning society), or by changing the laws to benefit yourself (which is a subversion of the capitalist system, but it can happen. It's not what people are usually complaining about though).