truedelphi
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Wed May-28-08 03:16 PM
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| 34. Now now, the rich do combine the traits you mention |
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With risk-taking,creativity and perseverance.
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| -Forget about white supremacy. It's all about RICH Supremacy now. |
El Pinko |
May-28-08 10:39 AM |
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Notice how the traits are all good ones: Risk-taking, creativity, and perserverance |
thecatburgler |
May-28-08 10:47 AM |
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Took the words right out of my mouth. nt |
RedCappedBandit |
May-28-08 11:27 AM |
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Now now, the rich do combine the traits you mention |
truedelphi |
May-28-08 03:16 PM |
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I'm torn about this. |
lumberjack_jeff |
May-28-08 10:50 AM |
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Don't feel torn. It's a logical fallacy of false choices. |
Fredda Weinberg |
May-28-08 10:54 AM |
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Teaching kids good financial sense is not what I objected to in the article... |
El Pinko |
May-28-08 11:01 AM |
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Personally, I think they are genetically INFERIOR. They have too much greed gene |
havocmom |
May-28-08 11:18 AM |
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' "All for Ourselves and Nothng for other People" seems, in every Age of the World, |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 12:06 PM |
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Might makes right? |
havocmom |
May-28-08 12:09 PM |
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You do realise that's a quotation? It's my favorite Adam Smith quote (Chomsky's too, I think) |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 01:27 PM |
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I love to hear conservatives quote Smith out of context and always with a smirk. |
glitch |
May-28-08 01:56 PM |
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If it's wrong of you, we share a sin :-) |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 02:01 PM |
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Me too, but I am trying not to feed the anger wolf. |
glitch |
May-28-08 02:57 PM |
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Too many dollars, not enough sense... |
Juniperx |
May-28-08 01:54 PM |
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In Ravi Batra's book on economics |
fasttense |
May-28-08 10:51 AM |
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Isn't it funny... |
El Pinko |
May-28-08 10:59 AM |
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It's always been "rich supremacy". But "rich" is a near-subset of "White" |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 10:52 AM |
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Time for a Howard Zinn refresher ... |
Myrina |
May-28-08 10:59 AM |
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Yeppers! |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 11:29 AM |
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Divide and conquer |
blindpig |
May-28-08 11:30 AM |
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Linebaugh & Rediker place the division in Barbados around 1650, when |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 02:20 PM |
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I've got a slightly different, downer, take on this. |
SimpleTrend |
May-28-08 11:07 AM |
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Nuance: dream of wealth, a little, but don't instill that as the core value of a human being |
havocmom |
May-28-08 11:23 AM |
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... and to expand on your thought ... |
Myrina |
May-28-08 01:05 PM |
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IMO creativity and self-reliance |
CJCRANE |
May-28-08 01:58 PM |
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I was taught to save early, how does someone argue against saving money? |
RGBolen |
May-28-08 12:11 PM |
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One argument against saving money is that the interest you get is always less than the depreciation |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 01:34 PM |
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You can also buy stock in the bank or brokerage you have it it, and then you too are getting use of |
RGBolen |
May-28-08 05:03 PM |
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Ah, but that's not saving, though, is it. It's gambling, unless you're an insider or a relative (nt |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 06:55 PM |
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Yes it is. I guess you can equate holding currency or stock to gambling if you want |
RGBolen |
May-28-08 10:17 PM |
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You said "buy stock in the bank or brokerage". Stock is gambling. So is currency speculation. |
bean fidhleir |
May-29-08 05:06 AM |
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Nothing wrong with saving money |
blindpig |
May-28-08 01:52 PM |
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K&R |
Herdin_Cats |
May-28-08 01:04 PM |
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hell, as a child I dreamed of Ferraris and Lambos |
Blue_Tires |
May-28-08 01:51 PM |
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Classism is the new racism |
Juniperx |
May-28-08 01:59 PM |
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Racism is classism at bottom. All the isms are, really. |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 02:03 PM |
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Yes, but with classism... |
Juniperx |
May-28-08 02:12 PM |
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I don't know about that statistic, but Wolff reported a few years ago (it's likely even worse now) |
bean fidhleir |
May-28-08 02:23 PM |
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aquisition theology |
T Monk |
May-28-08 03:42 PM |
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