(January 21, 2015 at 12:34 pm)Davka Wrote:(January 21, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Heywood Wrote: The fraction of the stuff the Mr and Mrs Howells use in the world is tiny compared to the fraction of stuff the deck hands like Gilligan use.
Are you seriously claiming this?
Take your average construction-worker. he has a truck with a toolbox full of tools. he has a smallish house, and probably a second car. These are the things he uses.
Now take your average 1-percenter. He has a limo, a couple of classic cars, a sports car, and an entire workshop full of high-end tools he rarely uses. He has a scanning electron microscope for entertainment in the Media Room of his favorite mansion, as well as a Summer House, a Winter House, a Lake Cabin (with boat), a Villa on the Riviera, and at least one guest house. If he rides, he has a stable full of horses and all the equipment that requires. He owns or leases a private jet and a helicopter. His house is fully wired and networked with computers and TVs in every room, including the bar, the den, the rumpus room, the media room, the poolhouse, and probably another half-dozen rooms you and I don't have (and never will).
And that's just the start.
I have worked for these people, setting up and repairing IT networks. I've seen how they live, and what they use.
And you, sir, are full of shit.
If you took all the cars owned by the 99 percenters and stacked them up against all the cars owned by the 1 percenters, which stack would be higher? Do the same with TVs and computers. The population of non rich people have more stuff....more tvs....more cars....more refrigerators....more furnaces...more copper pipes etc than the population of poor people.
I agree that a rich person has way more stuff than you. What I am saying is that if you took all his stuff and distributed among all the poor. Peoples lives don't improves very much. The rich guy just doesn't have enough stuff to make a meaningful difference. Your jealousy might be curbed but that is about it.
