Little Or No Net Worth

                           GEKKO

               The richest one percent of this

               country owns half the country's

               wealth: 5 trillion dollars. One

               third of that comes from hard work,

               two thirds of it comes from

               inheritance, interest on interest

               accumulation to widows and idiot

               sons and what I do -- stock and

               real estate speculation. It's

               bullshit. Ninety percent of the

               American people have little or no

               net worth. I create nothing; I own.

                               BUD

               Dad, I'm going to jail and you know

               it.

                               CARL

                       (shaking his head, sober)

               Maybe that's the price, Bud, maybe

               so. It's gonna be rough on you but

               maybe in some screwed up way,

               that's the best thing that can

               happen to you...stop trading for

               the quick buck and go produce

               something with your life, create,

                don't live off the buying and

               selling of others...

From the movie Wall Street - 1987.
I was 17.
Around age 21 I would take a Chinese history course in undergrad and come to learn that  owners, those who create nothing, who live off the buying and selling of others, are viewed as vermin by the Maoists.