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OldcabbageheadHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:41pm
I tried to explain this concept to my boss’s 26 year old this morning. He did not think the rich should be “punished” because they “worked harder” than everyone else. This guy graduated college and worked 5 years as a state park employee out west before he moved home so his dad could start him his own business, in a field where he has no prior experience. He also lives in a rental house his dad owns, free of charge and a landscaper comes to cut the grass once per week while he plays golf at the county club every Saturday. My eye almost burst a blood vessel because I could not have a fair conversation with the boss's kid without getting in a ton of trouble.
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  ReedRothchild82Oldcabbagehead
  1/19/16 12:53pm
  Replace “5 years as a state park employee” with “5 years working on a yacht in Australia” & I think we may work at the same place.
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  KikomanOldcabbagehead
  1/19/16 12:55pm
  Post his contact information here. I’d be happy to explain things to him. I think it’s an important thing for rich people to understand
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LordBurleighHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:27pm
You know, I study the early modern period, and as nutty as the concept of divine right of kings was from a contemporary vantage, at least it included a sense of responsibility for the wellbeing of the people whose labor you were exploiting.

In other words: Trump is what Henry VIII would have been had he lacked all milk of human kindness.
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  ThidrekrLordBurleigh
  1/19/16 12:31pm
  Henry VIII never had the luxury of hiding behind “American individualism.”
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  profxanderLordBurleigh
  1/19/16 12:32pm
  All that study of history is about to pay off, because feudalism is coming back in a big way.
  
  But maybe we’ll get lucky and skip that period and go straight to the French revolution.
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chickhaydenHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:28pm
And before this year is over, all of the people reading this and shaking their heads in agreement will vote for somebody who received $600,000 in personal checks from Goldman Sachs. The ciiiiiiircle of life.
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  DR honkhonkhonk, tyvmchickhayden
  1/19/16 12:36pm
  Would you actually prefer the non-compromise of President Trump/Cruz/Rubio/Bush? Be real.
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  Listerineychickhayden
  1/19/16 12:40pm
  Yeah, because the person who negotiates a $600K speaking fee for themselves surely has the negotiating chops to do the same for poor slobs because....reasons.
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Violent FellowkneesHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:26pm
Hey, so vote for Bernie so that he can pound sand about the 1% with no control of the senate or house.
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  esperanzoomzoomViolent Fellowknees
  1/19/16 12:28pm
  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK
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  VanNostrandesperanzoomzoom
  1/19/16 12:32pm
  Good job, gun nuts
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Dave Hamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:35pm
I, for one, welcome our continuing overlords!
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  amgarreDave
  1/19/16 12:48pm
  Me too. Let em have it, the whole rotten world, let them gorge themselves on it. Just give me a quiet room and leave me alone.
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  Wowzer44amgarre
  1/19/16 12:53pm
  Sorry. We need your organs.
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fondue processHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:30pm
Members of this global elite had an average wealth of $2.7 million per adult in 2014.

That seems... low to me, for some reason. Had no clue some of the trust fund babies in my barre class were part of the global elite (please, no one tell them)!
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  cepalgfondue process
  1/19/16 12:35pm
  Some of them are merely heirs of political dynasties as opposed to financial dynasties. Those can have a net worth as low as seven figures! But without them, the lives of the ones with eleven figures would not be possible, and so they are suffered to exist.
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  miketheburritofondue process
  1/19/16 12:56pm
  It might seem low for the US (or any other developed country), but a couple million dollars is quite high for the whole world, where billions of people struggle to survive on less than $2/day.
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opiumsmabytchHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:30pm
Everything?

Even Sir Davos Seaworth?
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  DR honkhonkhonk, tyvmopiumsmabytch
  1/19/16 12:35pm
  Lord Hand Davos Seaworth, JEEZ.
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  opiumsmabytchDR honkhonkhonk, tyvm
  1/19/16 12:36pm
  I stand corrected
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thwarted666Hamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:48pm
But don’t forget, poor people — it’s all your fault! Don’t buy so much stuff! Don’t have a cell phone!
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  accesscodethwarted666
  1/19/16 2:12pm
  I had an argument here once with some complete moron who kept claiming the problems with the economy were all the fault of the poor because ... wait for it .... they bought cheap goods! Yes! The poor should be buying expensive goods and are selfish idiots for economizing. His proof? A bunch of the poor have a car!
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  thwarted666accesscode
  1/19/16 3:07pm
  Oh, God.
  
  I had to bite my tongue once when a fashionista on my FB said (completely sincerely) that the poor should just save up and buy more expensive, better-made clothes to help with the sweatshop problem.
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marmeladeHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:35pm
Instead of being able to settle back and enjoy a pleasant, uneventful old age, I will now clearly be obliged to become a little old lady revolutionary, spending my golden years armed to the gills and taking the fight to the Man instead of knitting, tending my fern garden, and baking brioches for my beautiful and talented grandchildren.

In any case, it’s past time for everybody to brush up on their Karl Marx and their Friedrich Engels. Old Charlie and Freddie actually got a surprising lot of stuff right, well worth the tortured prose to get the benefit of their considerable insight into all this madness.

Meanwhile, if the workers of the world truly can’t be bothered to unite despite being slowly strangled into a condition of wretched servitude by a pack of gloating, bloated, horrid old plutocrats, then we’re all shit out of luck.
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  DuddyKravitzmarmelade
  1/19/16 12:47pm
  It’s not even that they can’t be bothered, they’ve been manipulated into contentedness. The 1% have learned from history and realise that if you give the 99% just enough toys and trifles they will keep themselves entertained and not rise up.
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  Akat101marmelade
  1/19/16 1:08pm
  Fightin’ little old ladies for the win!
  
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igotwordsHamilton Nolan
1/19/16 12:53pm
I do not begrudge the wealthy for being rich, I begrudge the rest of us poor saps for buying that they are rich because they are better, or more special, or work harder, or are more deserving, then anyone else.

Maybe they could use a little of that money to re-invest in the society and people that helped them get that rich... you know... instead of building ivory towers made from real ivory.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -FDR

I’d say by FDR’s reference guide, we have actually gone backwards.
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  Elumerereigotwords
  1/19/16 2:17pm
  Yup.
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  Gawquera de Tokers Townigotwords
  1/19/16 2:44pm
  Watch The Roosevelts on PBS and them compare them to the Bushes et al.
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