The thread title is misleading. The point is that people who live by fraud, instutionalized corruption, ponzi schemes, and outrageous exploitation of their fellow human beings do not deserve their wealth.

This would include some of the rich. It would not include various others among the rich. There's no point simply asking the question "Do the rich deserve their wealth?", because it's a stupid question. It lumps all rich people together as if they were all the same, and they're not.

It's as stupid and pointless as asking, "Do Republicans deserve to live?" or "Do Democrats deserve to own minivans?"

Ask a stupid question? You'll get a stupid answer. So what you have in that poll is 58% of the people who gave a stupid answer to a colossally stupid question. ;-) And 42% who gave a different stupid answer to the same colossally stupid question. There IS no intelligent or useful way of responding to such a poll, except to refuse to take part in it.