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In reply to the discussion: Keynes, on how society will eventually view excessive wealth acquisition as a mental illness. [View all]IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)79. I heard Rowling say in an interview once that she remained in the country of her birth
so that she could return good for good by supporting the system that had given her a fighting chance to succeed. Imagine! A really rich person who wants to pay high taxes. That takes character. Too bad she's rare as hen's teeth.
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reformist2
Mar 2014
OP
Wealth extractors...I want to see the meme of "job creators" die until they actually create some!!!
Moostache
Mar 2014
#36
Maybe they used to be job creators, but no more. And they never created jobs to help others.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#58
Thank you for this explanation. Do you think that money-lover was there all along,
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#4
Someone I heard call the way we are with one another, "like crabs in a bucket" nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#42
I agree. The system of life sets one person against the next, all hiding behind a facade of
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#54
I can relate. My ex once looked me straight in the face and wondered aloud, unblinking,
IrishAyes
Mar 2014
#77
I think this is far more likely in most cases. It's what the person brings to the table. n/t
jtuck004
Mar 2014
#70
Keynes talks about this later in that essay, how the rich often don't even enjoy their riches!
reformist2
Mar 2014
#6
Thank you for your op. This is one of the few on DU worth noting and discussing.
L0oniX
Mar 2014
#18
And this is why they believe they must own the future, ours, theirs, everything. n/t
freshwest
Mar 2014
#59
But even that is illusory - no single billionaire really controls much in this world.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#24
It's all about using $ to measure treasured anatomy. The more $, the bigger.... y'know.
IrishAyes
Mar 2014
#78
I heard Rowling say in an interview once that she remained in the country of her birth
IrishAyes
Mar 2014
#79
JK Rowling is an example of why we need to pay our unemployed workers. They are valuable assets.
grahamhgreen
Mar 2014
#50
You're welcome. I was just reading about technological job loss, and this essay came up.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#26
They are sociopaths. They do this without reguard for the human lives oppressed and destroyed.
L0oniX
Mar 2014
#15
Those like Keynes who wrote about the future from the era of the Great Depression merely looked
jwirr
Mar 2014
#35
The past 20-30 years has changed the American people's view of the very rich.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#55
Oligarchs are still worshipped in flyover country where I retired. Stockholm Syndrome -
IrishAyes
Mar 2014
#80
They can pay hundreds of people to call them "job creators," but they can't make people believe it.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#63