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Chrisfishenstein
reply to post by spiritualzombie
Good luck talking the most wealthy & powerful in the world share their wealth with the rest of the peons on this earth!
Our monetary system was EFFED since Woodrow Wilson accepted the Federal Reserve and sent us down a path to destruction ever since.....You have to have money to make money...T!edit on 1/30/2014 by Chrisfishenstein because: (no reason given)
onequestion
People cant see how greed has destroyed the world and they think because someone went out of their way to rig and earn more money the 3 billion other people on the planet, no matter what, those people are dumb, lazy, and stupid.
They dont deserve to eat and have a house to live under.
thesaneone
You know whats worse then greed?
Jealousy.
People need to stop worrying what the other guy has and be happy with what they themselves have. I'm not mad at the guy down the street who has a sweet ride that he worked hard for but it might motivate me to work harder for something I WANT as long as I take care of my basic NEEDS first.
TerryMcGuire
reply to post by spiritualzombie
The important message in your OP for me is that these few rich are not like you and me. They suffer from their own sickness. Illness. Psychopathy, one which lays dormant within a fair portion of the species.
Like you I recall that Monopoly game. I wanted the other players to just keep playing so that I could win more and more. Give them credit. Allow them to accrue debt.
Now I was never a brilliant person, but even as a young person at the time, I could see the relationship between me, the happy winner, owner, landlord, and the other players did not make for a fun game. Why, I even got to the point that I began to parcel off a few of my lesser monopolies to the other players just to keep them in the game. I of course would receive as payment free passage and the two hundred dollars they would receive each time from going around go.
Unlike the game however, this system of "wealth to the top" is supported by so many people who will never get to the top. Or even near the top. It is supported only by the dream, the fantasy, the illusion that if one works hard enough and with a little bit of luck, they just possibly might . Believing that the very rich are just successful versions of themselves. Sad.
ketsuko
onequestion
People cant see how greed has destroyed the world and they think because someone went out of their way to rig and earn more money the 3 billion other people on the planet, no matter what, those people are dumb, lazy, and stupid.
They dont deserve to eat and have a house to live under.
It's not that. It's the means being suggested.
If we take it violently, we're no better than they are for massing it.
Theft is as much a sin as greed, but the supposed solution to greed is mass theft?
I was always taught that two wrongs don't make a right.
onequestion
reply to post by ketsuko
Suggest a medium for us to fix our current debt issues and economic problems that stem from greed and people being sociopaths dont care about anything or anyone but themselves?
spacedog1973
reply to post by spiritualzombie
Personally, I don't think its the game at all - its learned behaviour. All you want and more could be enacted through legislation to help shift the balance of wealth, but the very same people who would benefit (who comprise the vast majority of people) would vote against it, due to the division between themselves.
History shows it to be true. You have people thinking their material wealth (trinkets essentially) are more important than social equity. That is learned behaviour and will persist no matter the background culture or how it changes. People so obsessed that other people don't get access to their trinkets and meanwhile overlook that people effectively own them and their trinkets many times over.
Change the education, change the people, change the system. Otherwise, it will come crashing down as everyone scurries to their learned respective positions.
ketsuko
reply to post by TerryMcGuire
See, I never wanted to keep playing once it was self-evident who had won. There was no more point, and I never made up schemes to keep gaming them into it.
But to me, I learned early on that the point was playing the game, not necessarily the winning. I wanted to play and play well, and if that got me a win, so much the better, and if not, then at least I knew I played the best game I could.
Are you that blind that you cant see that a small percentage of people hoarding all of this nations wealth isnt a problem?