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The belief that the wealthy are worthy is waning
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zeldalee13



Joined: 08 Nov 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This sentiment hasn't spread to Korea yet.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired

PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zeldalee13 wrote:
This sentiment hasn't spread to Korea yet.


Koreans are very sensitive to class differences and inequality.
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kingplaya4



Joined: 14 May 2006

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not impressed with a bunch of fat cats donating their wealth mostly in their old age. I would be more impressed with them having simply shared a good percent of their wealth with their workers. Instead, they give it to charities, and certainly a certain portion does go to those too lazy to work themselves out of their situation. In the case of Warren Buffet specifically, a lot of his workers complain about the lack of compensation and his anti-union collusion activities. A ceo's salary should be limited to about 50 times that of the lowest paid company worker. That should still be plenty of motivation to move up the ladder.

I don't feel out all thankful about living now instead of 1900, although I'd personally choose 1800. I'd much prefer to toil on the farm than to live in a box in a polluted city. Yes I'm sure I could work for $5 an hour on a corporate farm anytime I would like, but obviously that's not what I'm talking about. My risk of starvation and death from disease would certainly be much higher, but I'd be happy to give up the tv's, computers etc and be able to enjoy nature and be available to my family everyday.
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Rusty Shackleford



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kingplaya4 wrote:

I don't feel out all thankful about living now instead of 1900, although I'd personally choose 1800. I'd much prefer to toil on the farm than to live in a box in a polluted city. Yes I'm sure I could work for $5 an hour on a corporate farm anytime I would like, but obviously that's not what I'm talking about. My risk of starvation and death from disease would certainly be much higher, but I'd be happy to give up the tv's, computers etc and be able to enjoy nature and be available to my family everyday.


So basically you would trade having all the food you could ever want, earned by working a few hours a day, for 12 hour days of physical back breaking labor with never enough to eat and only a small handful of foods to choose from? You wouldn't be available to your family because you would have to make dam sure your crops didn't fail or animals died as you would starve to death in the winter if they did.

Have you ever worked on a modern (non factory/feed lot style) farm? It's no picnic, let alone 200 years ago when they didn't have tractors or decent machinery. Unless you were lucky enough to find yourself in an upperclass situation back in 1800 (which would still suck), you would be clamoring to get back to your warm home, with plenty of food and hot and cold running water and women with all their hair, teeth and limbs and transportation and medicine and non-ignorant, superstitious towns folk. Need I go on?
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