Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 17, 2024, 01:07 PM

Quotewhat does that mean you'll do with the million dollar house and fancy German luxury cars?

I will keep the cars and the house as they are the result of fifty years of my own congealed labor.

But of course you will.

You will note that the logic I set up knew this in advance. And the dichotomy of that and your pressing desire for LESS INEQUALITY. When, in the eyes of the wealth of the people in the country and world, you good sir, ARE IT! Stealers of opportunity, hoarding of wealth and privilege (earned or otherwise), and as we now know, you also feel the same way AS THEM.

I EARNED IT...BY GOD I KEEP IT!!!

I agree with you. Not about whether or not your position is logically tenable, but I want to keep my stuff too. I understand why RE might want everyones stuff given to the needy (and arguably is getting just that), but you don't want things being equal for a split second.

How can you not go to Starbucks in a cage not broadcasting your status and hard earned privilege!

Quote from: K-DogMy net worth is consistent with someone who earned every fucking dime they have.  Which I did. 

Feels a little personal when someone wants to make you less "unequal" don't it? And that sqaures with the equalness of communism....how?

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Quotethink fast....wouldn't Elon and every other fat cat say the same thing?

They would say the same thing, and they would be lying.

And PRESTO. THEY are lying...but someone like you who has EARNED it...well....you just don't want those grubby poor people dipping into your successful professional life earnings.

Pot, kettle, black.

Quote from: K-DogThey are rich because they stole congealed labor from other people.  I have not done that. 

They are rich because they worked hard, in a different way then you, better than you in that they found an angle, and worked it, and leveraged it, and presto! Became exactly like you...except they did it better.

And now...no one had better touch my German taxi cabs because by God my boss at the big box store knows I am DA MAN when it comes to success above his hourly rate once upon a time!

Elon just does it with rockets and cars and stuff. And both of you think the same thing about things being "more equal". You just don't like how far he got with it, compared to the rest of us.