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I Wish This Was A Joke
#11
RE: I Wish This Was A Joke
(January 20, 2015 at 2:24 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I haven't been in a good pogrom in ages

From Young Frankenstein: "A riot is an ugly thing... und I think that it is just about time that we had one!"

(January 20, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Heywood Wrote:
(January 20, 2015 at 2:23 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Don't be such an idiot. Minimalist posts a lot of stuff from this site and is well aware that it's satire -- in this case, satire with more than a hint of truth to it.

I don't know who the bigger moron is. You, Chas, or Minimalist.

Yes, yes, I've known you're a humorless twat for some time. No need to confirm it.
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#12
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(January 20, 2015 at 2:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: There wealth distribution is now like france during the last days of the Bourbons.
Something needs to be done to redress the balance.
Unfortunately every time someone tries the rich deploy their wealth to stop it, we are moving towards an Elysium future and I'm not sure we can stop it.

Real wealth is stuff not numbers in a ledger. If you killed every millionaire and took their stuff and divided it up among the rest. Peoples lives would not change by very much. Rich people just don't have enough stuff.
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#13
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(January 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Heywood Wrote: Real wealth is stuff not numbers in a ledger. If you killed every millionaire and took their stuff and divided it up among the rest. Peoples lives would not change by very much. Rich people just don't have enough stuff.

Must be why billionaires are so eager to swap bank accounts, certificates of stock, deeds, and other property.
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#14
RE: I Wish This Was A Joke
(January 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Heywood Wrote: Real wealth is stuff not numbers in a ledger. If you killed every millionaire and took their stuff and divided it up among the rest. Peoples lives would not change by very much. Rich people just don't have enough stuff.

You mean if HALF the wealth in the world were redistributed, it wouldn't matter? I don't believe that.

However, I do agree that much of poverty is endemic to geographic area and culture. Funding education and relocation may be the only solution. And many people might be unwilling to move or change culturally and so deserve the resulting poverty.

Further, most redistribution schemes are worse than the problem as they disincentive work and innovation thus limiting the total value of human effort.

One change I'd like to see that would only work globally is a confiscatory tax on inheritance beyond a minimal amount for adult beneficiaries, and beyond that minimal amount plus housing and education for minors. The problem being that it would have to be world wide or the rich would just move.

Up to this point in my life, I've been living on what I made or hubby made. Suddenly I have more because Dad has left me more. No reason I should get that bonus. No I won't give it away (well actually I will give some of it away) but it isn't deserved. And I don't think Dad made the money for me. He would have continued working without being able to pass the money on. I think most people are like that.
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Leave it to Woodie to defend greedy motherfuckers.

Maybe you should patch the roof in your trailer and dream of the day when you, too, will be a rich motherfucker, Woodie.

You fucking asshole.
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#16
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On one hand, I have a really good life; I can't really criticize someone who's better or worse off than me.
On the other hand, I'm really hungry right now.
Gone
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#17
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(January 20, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:
(January 20, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Alex K Wrote: Let's go grease the Guillotines...

I'll bring the pitchforks. Who's getting the torches?

I've got the torches covered, who's bringing chips 'n' dip?
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#18
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(January 20, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Leave it to Woodie to defend greedy motherfuckers.

Maybe you should patch the roof in your trailer and dream of the day when you, too, will be a rich motherfucker, Woodie.

You fucking asshole.

On that, we heartily agree. Big Grin
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(January 20, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Roxy904 Wrote: On one hand, I have a really good life; I can't really criticize someone who's better or worse off than me.
On the other hand, I'm really hungry right now.

Rich people are delicious.
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#20
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I'll take a rich motherfucker's stock portfolio anytime.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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