(February 7, 2013 at 1:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I don't get that either, I think past a certain point it is obscene.
I most certainly have run into people who had everything and were miserable. Life is a range and so you can only speak in terms of probability not absolutes.
I can absolutely speak in as many absolutes as I want, regardless of whether it is or isn't correct/true. That's the point of knowledge
The richest miserable person knows not misery like the poorest miserable people. Those who have control over vast sums (richness) by definition cannot be barred access to them (as then they'd be poor). Therefore, a rich person cannot be trafficked, a rich person does not fear shelter disappearing, a rich person does not live without shelter as anything but their choice, a rich person doesn't have to think about aborting children because they can't afford them, a rich person doesn't go hungry but as a disorder, and a rich person can always afford entertainment.
Have everything and think they're miserable? Watch what happens when you then take away 'everything'.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day