You know why 'not so wealthy' don't trust/like 'wealthy' people?

[Mind_your_head]

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[Selatius]

1. In the old days, you could get murdered for trying to form a labor union.

The employer would hire a hit man to take you out.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yep, that;'s it in a nutshell

It goes beyond that, but that's it in a nutshell

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. I have a story about that.

My father was a union organizer. Back in the 1930s, before they had labor laws with minimum wage and hour standards, they would show up on a picket line at Crown Central Petroleum. And the cops would bust heads open and haul all the picketers off to jail. And the bail was $100. Nobody had any money, so the wife of the first labor lawyer in town (Arthur Mandell) would bail everyone out of jail.


Crown was famous, even in the 60s and 70s, for strikes and lockouts.

The bad old days.

[Rosemary2205]

9. yep.

[jeff30997]

2. Nope.

Please enlighten us with your infinite wisdom. :P

[Mind_your_head]

4. Don't have wisdom.....

just a voice, an opinion (just as everyone has an anus....for reference)....so I'm not about to mount my high horse tonight (no promises about/against 'high horses' tomorrow though ;-) )

[Fovea]

3. Because all the resources of the American government

were dedicated to making sure the uber rich got more power and bigger toys.

After Katrina, the party was over, but the uber rich did not figure that out.

[lligrd]

6. Because They Get Their Wealth At Our Expense

and are never satisfied.

[Mind_your_head]

7. My humble opinion/answer......

In order to obtain material wealth in this world, one must compromise/betray basic principles of goodness (and work)

I'm off to bed .....

Peace,
M_Y_H

[Oregone]

10. Perhaps its the perception that to become wealthy, one must either...

Inherit the wealth (without merit), or profit disproportionally more from their merits at the expense of an exponential amount of un-wealthy people profiting disproportionally less.

Both cases are not based upon the original concept of "earning" (whereas work is rewarded based on the worth and amount of work). People want to believe in a just and sensible world, and to see this progression of wealth, at their perceived cost, stands contradictory to their worldview.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. In a way I tend to trust the wealthy

I have to deal with a company where a bunch of boiler room managers were brought in and were trying to entice people who made $150,000+ a year and had enough frequent flyer miles to fly around the world several times into doing unethical things for Circuit City gift cards and trips to shitty resorts in Cancun.

Nobody took the bait - the wealthy can be too expensive to economically buy off.

[Bob Dobbs]

12. Horsesh*t!

The rich didn't get there by not being bought off.

Hugo, Fidel and Che Are Progressive!

[Hannah Bell]

13. the price wasn't high enough. circuit city gift cards? yuk, yuk.

[MiniMe]

14. Because they are trying to steal whatever meager pittance you have left

Lately, it seems like the filty rich are trying to take everything for themselves, its me, me, me. They don't want to pay taxes on it, they don't care how many people get hurt by the fact that they are ruthless in acquiring more wealth.

Obviously that is a generalization. Some of the filthy rich do care, but it seems like there are less and less of them.