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Originally posted by kro32
I believe that as long as their is one single millionaire in the world people like you would say they are the root of all evil because they simply have more than you.
Life is hard. If you work hard, you should reap the benefits.
I make well under a hundred thousand a year and I plan on being a millionarie within a decade. I have not had to "screw" over the public to get where i am. Its called hard work and careful investing and not spending beyond my means.
But its so much easier for people to whine and complain and point their fingers at those who worked hard to get where they are and demand they "share".
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by nightbringr
QUESTION: Why are you supporting Global Corporate Government? Do you honestly believe they're working in your best interest?
I do not support the global corporate government. I support self-sufficency. Perhaps that has no place in this discussion, but i felt obliged to post when many other posters bemoaned that it was impossible for anyone to make anything of themselves in our western society today.
It is simply untrue. While yes, there is decay and the middle class is dying, it is not dead. A combination of hard work and careful investing as well as simple fiscal responsibilty is all you need to be what many people would call successful.
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by nightbringr
I do not support the global corporate government. I support self-sufficency. Perhaps that has no place in this discussion, but i felt obliged to post when many other posters bemoaned that it was impossible for anyone to make anything of themselves in our western society today.
It is simply untrue. While yes, there is decay and the middle class is dying, it is not dead. A combination of hard work and careful investing as well as simple fiscal responsibilty is all you need to be what many people would call successful.
Our economy is a giant Ponzi scheme - a pyramid.
It is impossible for everyone to be "successful." The system only works if most people are at the bottom of the pyramid, and are NOT "successful." by any terms.
Our Global Corporate Government counts on people like you buying into the fraud.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by nightbringr
Not supporting child labor, slavery, brutal warlords, the willingness of some people to dump huge amounts of poisons into our air, land, and water, not supporting fraud, nor genocide is not coveting what others have.
The crimes against humanity by the super rich are vast and unforgivable. You seem to want to pretend to ignore this reality, why?
So you might be wroth a million, welcome to the upper middle class. You are not rich, and you are certainly not among the global elite, so what are you posting here about?
You might be surprised to find that a great many people do not want to be rich, or even upper middle class. They want a decent place to live, to work in a field where they feel that they are doing something positive in this world, and enough free time to raise their children and enjoy life. In my opinion, those are the people with their act together.
The super greedy super rich destroy everything for everyone with their insatiable need to boost their own egos because deep down inside they are wretched human beings. No, not all rich people, and you are not rich, are bad people, but at the very top, all indications are that the bad people completely dominate.
I would say it is more the .001% that control most of the money.
What the propagandists want to ignore is that the wealth and power of the elites is built on an extremely flimsy system of fractional reserve banking, and that all that wealth can come crashing down and disappear quicker than anyone can imagine.
Two major trends are about to change the whole game.
Technology has brought us to the point where we no longer need large investments of capital for mass production. The biggest battle ground of the elites is to keep working class people in the U.S. from realizing that they can start small companies and distribute goods and services completely independent of corporate elites. There is very little need for large corporations anymore. The era that spawned the large corporate powers has already passed. These large corporate entities, and essentially all large institutions, are dinosaurs trying to cling to power.
The one resource that global elites rely upon the most to maintain their power, oil, is now running out.
Without an easy to obtain, rich source of energy, the current disposable society is not sustainable.
What the elites, through control of finance and energy, have done, is create a society dependent on consumption,
By keeping people trapped into the pursuit of financial obligations, they prevent them from becoming economically independent. This prevents people from discovering that they can live outside of this system, and live very prosperous lives without the need for constant consumption. We are quite capable of manufacturing all that we need at the local level, giving people much more control over their lives.
This system depends on the ability of corporations to move manufacturing to areas where people have very little rights, and are forced to work for very little compensation, creating slave labor production areas. This means concentrating production into areas in one part of the world, and shipping the goods around the planet to other parts of the world for consumption. Without cheap energy sources, from the large reserves of oil around the planet, this system is not feasible.
It also relies on ever increasing levels of debt, which is just as unsustainable.
What we are witnessing is a last attempt by global elites to try and desperately hold onto power. They will fail at this, because all economic and social trends, and the advancement of technology, is against them.
What remains is for people to embrace the collapse of the current system, so that a the new, inevitable economic system can emerge, where people are no longer dependent upon corporate elites.
It is just a matter of how the events that lead to this unfold.
Originally posted by wantsome
The should call it trickle up economics. I think we should linch the up 1% and redistribute the wealth. There aint no way they could stop 150 million of us.
Originally posted by poet1b
The illusion is that we need the elites, but the truth is that they need us, average people, and we don't need them.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by nightbringr
Like wealthy elites have ever had a problem murdering innocent people who get in their way.
Why shouldn't criminals be punished for their misdeeds. Why shouldn't those who profited mainly from destroying the lively hoods of others through sneaky means pay for their crimes?
Babies born without brains in the poisonous manufacturing environments along the TexMex border, that is inhumane.