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    - Economic Errata

    Started by K-Dog May 16, 2025, 07:47 AM

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    K-Dog

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    May 16, 2025, 07:47 AM
    QuoteThe excuse for the cooler was "insulting a diner". Where was the insult?

    1)  My net worth is personal.  If I am a millionaire or not is my business.

    There was a clear sense of me being  'the pot calling the kettle black' in your comment, suggesting that I was a hypocrite for criticizing wealth. 

    That is a ridiculous claim.  Extreme wealth is not the same thing as having earned enough to be comfortable.  Extreme wealth is an abuse of power.  Extreme wealth puts one in another class.  Extreme wealth kills democracy.

    There are only so many hours in a lifetime.  'Earning' ones own money through labor caps a persons net worth at a million or two, that is all.  Anyone who has more than that has acquired money by other means than working, and are in a class other than the working class.

    So you pissed me off and I sent you to the cooler for three days.  RE and I do that when you piss us off and the specific reason in this case results from discussing my personal business.

    And while it is true RE has also discussed my net worth, he did not start it, you did, and he did not piss me off like you did.  You are always trying to say I have 'crocodile tears' when it comes to money.  My position is that having a million earned through honest labor is not the same thing as having ten million or more harvested from American capitalist excess.  Those kind of rich are in a social class which looks down on everyone else.

    The only people I can look down on are adults of sound mind and body who refuse to work.  I do not have a problem with that at all.  Someone I know was in Italy recently, and it was noted that everybody who was working was old, the young have better things to do.

    I see nothing wrong with following your bliss if you do it on your own dime.

    In my world, personal contact with the means of production would be something everyone would have to experience for some part of their life.

    If that makes me a work NAZI so be it.



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