If you are wealthy, and uncomfortable about the power this gives you, don't just feel bad. Use it -- against plutocracy.

The term "class-traitor" is based on the supposition that the rich ought to be joining together to fight a class war against everyone else. That supposition is outrageous in itself.

I disagree with Ice-T's words, and their implicit assumption: that condemning the system absolves those who exploit it, so you can only blame one or the other. Morally, both are responsible. We must sometimes excuse the system's victims. When poor people commit rather small crimes or deceptions to survive, or to care for their children as in Metiria Turei's case, I can't blame them.

But this does not apply to the wealthy that exploit others because the system enables them to.