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"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is a catchphrase and aphorism sometimes evoked, with variations in wording, when discussing economic inequality. Its most common use is as a synopsis of a socialist criticism of the free market system (capitalism), implying the perceived inevitability of what Karl Marx called the Law of Increasing Poverty.〔 ==Predecessors== Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the U.S. (1829–1837), in his 1832 bank veto, said that :when the laws undertake... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society... have a right to complain of the injustice to their Government.〔 ()〕 William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the U.S. (1841), said in an October 1, 1840 speech, :It is true democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Henry Harrison quotes )〕〔, p. 146; quotes "all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer" and sources it to , p. 292〕 In 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley argued, in ''A Defence of Poetry'' (not published until 1840), that in his England, "the promoters of utility" had managed :to exasperate at once the extremes of luxury and want. They have exemplified the saying, “To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away.” The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism. Such are the effects which must ever flow from an unmitigated exercise of the calculating faculty. The phrase resembles the Bible verse :For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.〔Matthew 13:12, King James translation〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「the rich get richer and the poor get poorer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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