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When did being rich become a bad thing?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:23 pm
Wealth used to be a measure of success; something to aspire to. Now it's portrayed as evil and out of touch. Heck, even Bernie Sanders is now taking fire because he may be a millionaire. Oh the shame!
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Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:44 pm to HoopyD
Fake morality being used as a cover for immoral Marxism.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:48 pm to HoopyD
It's cyclical, and happens when a privileged few become so wealthy that everyone else notices, it seems unattainable, and everyone is enviable. See the robber barons of the late 19th to early 20th century or the French aristocrats of the late 18th century.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:56 pm to HoopyD
Bernie doesn’t think being rich is a bad thing, as long as it’s him who is rich.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:57 pm to HoopyD
Wypippo/conservative rich = bad. Everyone else rich = good.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:57 pm to HoopyD
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When did being rich become a bad thing?
The same day it became okay to be a victim and blame others for your situation.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:57 pm to HoopyD
2012
Posted on 4/10/19 at 1:59 pm to HoopyD
quote:
Wealth used to be a measure of success; something to aspire to. Now it's portrayed as evil and out of touch. Heck, even Bernie Sanders is now taking fire because he may be a millionaire. Oh the shame!
Have you not been paying attention lately? Having lots of money and connections basically functions as a get out of jail free card more often than it should.
That goes for both individuals and large companies. It's like you can be either too rich to fail or too big to fail in America.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:01 pm to cahoots
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Have you not been paying attention lately? Having lots of money and connections basically functions as a get out of jail free card more often than it should.
That goes for both individuals and large companies. It's like you can be either too rich to fail or too big to fail in America.
When, in the history of the world, has this not been the case?
Where, on the entire friggin planet now, is this not the case?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:02 pm to HoopyD
Poor progressives hate the rich.
Then they become limousine liberals if/when they get money.
Then they become limousine liberals if/when they get money.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:07 pm to ShortyRob
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When, in the history of the world, has this not been the case?
probably never
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Where, on the entire friggin planet now, is this not the case?
probably nowhere
I'm answering the OP's question. People with a lot of money and power are going to be (sometimes rightfully) criticized for it.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:13 pm to HoopyD
Its amazing what has happened in this arena over the past generation.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:21 pm to HoopyD
Nothing at all wrong with being rich.
But frick rich socialists with a 10 foot pole.
But frick rich socialists with a 10 foot pole.
This post was edited on 4/10/19 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:24 pm to HoopyD
To be fair there is a significant amount of wealthy people who have simply rode the train they were born on.
The real issue in America is not wealth it's the idolatry of wealth.
When you've stripped society of all non-physical meaning (religious values) the only thing remaining is a physical existence and it's only natural people are going to tie their self worth into materialism.
The real issue in America is not wealth it's the idolatry of wealth.
When you've stripped society of all non-physical meaning (religious values) the only thing remaining is a physical existence and it's only natural people are going to tie their self worth into materialism.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:28 pm to HoopyD
Nov. 2008
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:30 pm to HoopyD
quote:
Wealth used to be a measure of success; something to aspire to. Now it's portrayed as evil and out of touch. Heck, even Bernie Sanders is now taking fire because he may be a millionaire. Oh the shame!
Why go to bat for the ultra wealthy like this? They aren’t your friends.
It benefits to have us neatly split into two camps, one camp made up of Communist LARPers with absurd ideas that have already been proven not to work, and the other camp made up of people who think that ANY questioning of the ultra wealthy amounts to Communism.
Stop carrying their water.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:31 pm to uway
quote:They are no less my friend than you are?
Why go to bat for the ultra wealthy like this? They aren’t your friends.
They're just fellow Americans. Some good, some not
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:32 pm to HoopyD
There's nothing wrong with being wealthy overall but when it gets a little ridiculous and the disparity becomes too much across-the-board, people start getting a little Restless. Is it really that hard to understand?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:33 pm to Ebbandflow
quote:Only to pathetic envious people
There's nothing wrong with being wealthy overall but when it gets a little ridiculous and the disparity becomes too much across-the-board
quote:Pathetic envious people
people start getting a little Restless
quote:Not really. I have known enough of you pathetic envious people to expect it
Is it really that hard to understand?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:34 pm to Ebbandflow
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the disparity becomes too much
Define 'too much'.
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