Interesting to see you deepen the conversation about this topic. Socially responsible actions of the rich are likely motivated by self-interest. I agree that motivations may be irrelevant. Yet a main point of your post In Defense of the Rich that stood out to me was challenging the idea that rich people are the enemy as a general standpoint, rather than focusing on the covert elements within our corrupt financial system. This paragraph from that post really does it for me:
I feel like class politics have become little more than populist outpourings of lazy thinking and unproductive anger. If you get people resenting each other over income disparities, no one ever mentions the real issues. Instead they just argue endlessly about how to stick it to the rich.
Something I also like to think about is noticing when justice and accountability are honored in society. It's rare, but it does happen (this might be a good WTK newsletter topic). Like the Biden v. Missouri is pretty big. And I'm sure there are others that I can't think of now. What made these successes possible? And how can we build and create more of those moments? In ways that address the intersectionality of all abuses and harms pervading society and politics (not just for the left or right wing as an example). Hope that makes sense.
I get what you're saying. Highlighting and replicating successes is definitely important. Missouri v Biden is big. I feel like maybe a distinction should be made between the abuses produced by the normal operations of the system and abuses in excess of this, to better identify systemic vs individual solutions.