There's no way anyone can read the DUmp and think it's anything other than envy.
It's not envy, we just want what they haveFantastic Anarchist Donating Member (394 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 07:42 AM
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It is NOT about wealth-envy!!!
It is about not letting them have exclusive control to the levers of power.
It's really all that simple.
DCKit (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:03 AM
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1. If anything, it's exactly opposite... our horror at their spending, at our expense.
I just got an email from a $6K/month sister who called me every name in the book, told me I was mentally ill, then went on to make some really disparaging remarks.
I'm not going to answer with an email, I'm going to use a lawyer.
This must be serious, I hope you have access to Pitts Ninja lawyers.
badtoworse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:12 AM
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2. Sue her for being an asshole?
That's a new one on me. What's a $6K / month sister?
lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:16 AM
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5. Perhaps there's more to this story than you thing.
More than I thing? Are you related to Nadin?
randome (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:36 AM
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8. Obviously.
Then what's the point of telling the story?
DCKit (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:43 AM
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10. They committed fraud to gain $65. That's sixty five bucks.
Don't tell me I don't have a case.
$65? You're getting a lawyer over $65?
Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:51 AM
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11. A case? Who knows? I have no idea at all what your posts
here mean. None. At all. Gibberish.
treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 09:15 AM
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4. This is true
They wish we envied them. That's why they "worked so hard." To be at the top. If that isn't acknowledged, what was the point?
Nope, no sign of envy there.
DCKit (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 10:45 AM
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15. I'll assume that you secretly abhor them, as I do.
Anyone who "needs" more than $6K per month to survive is a parasite on all of us.
So now $72,000/year is outrageously wealthy?
Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 11:18 AM
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19. Why would I envy a money-hoarder...
any more than I envy the old lady with the 137 cats, or the old fart who has 350 wrecked cars in his pasture?
Hoarding is an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Couple of million...? ... 10 cats... No problem.
Couple of Billion.... ? .... 137 cats....Problem.
The county can... and does... limit the number of cats you can have beyond reasonable norms.
The government should limit the amount of money you have beyond reasonable norms.
And there's the winner!
randome (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-04-11 11:25 AM
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20. Unfortunately, that sounds like 'socialism' or even 'communism' to most people.
I can't say I'd have a problem with certain features of your idea, though.
Say, any amount of money over a certain limit would need to be invested in creating a company (jobs) or in donations to a cause of your choice. Otherwise, it simply reverts to the government to do what it wants.
On the other hand, most people would never aspire to taking in more money than they need to avoid this limit and progress (from private enterprise) would grind to a halt and we would be left to the government to decide more than they do now.
