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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
Seriosly, if you look at what they've all made their fortune on. To be rich on diamonds, porn, internet, internet-porn, banking, media, pharma, oil, telecom. That might be one thing. But how do you think #38 should be treated?
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- Mar 2008
- 29883
- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
George Soros has done a huge amount for the education of Roma and raising awareness of the issues that they face. Much of the research I did for my dissertation into Roma education was dependent on studies carried out by his foundation.
We are in a society that encourages a tiny but powerful minority to make lots of money so it is hardly a surprise that they do. Rather than attack the individuals for making money - unless they are actively participating in illegal or immoral activities, we have to change the system that enables this.
I think there was a saying that, after you made your first million, the rest was just keeping score. I expect that it has now gone up to £10 million. However, once you are the other side of 10 or 20 million, it s quite hard to waste it unless you buy a football club or some other really stupid company. £100 million and it is virtually impossible even if you develop a crack addict and pay all your taxes so you are just going to keep on making money on your investments.
I would rather the state funding the sort of work the Soros and the solar power guy are doing but, in its absence, at least they are.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
caja-dglh wrote: I was impressed to see a chap who's wealth is from ball bearings that high up.
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- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
I don't care what any conflicting evidence may say, Nutella is the most addictive substance on Earth.
Michele Ferrero may well have just called himself Pablo Escobar and have done with it.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
I've never seen the point of these lists, including the Sunday Times's own Rich List, unless the purpose is to be that of a smug, baiting exercise that lets us meagre serfs know where we stand in this life. They had what they did then when publications like Forbes came out with these lists, an edge of callousness that almost celebrated divide, and an oleaginous wanking-based deference towards those who could buy the ground from under your feet. It's a tad uncomfortable knowing that there are people who live their lives probably forgetting how many thousands they earn a minute and who live lives so insulated by wealth that they've become insane (hello, Barclay Brothers!), but it becomes even more so when their suggested bank balances are flaunted in a Top Of The Pops-style countdown solely designed to kiss arse and remind us that They Are The Masters Now.
Inequality as triumph.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
I wouldn't want to swap financial places with any of that lot, though. In terms of how having that kind of wealth would screw your life up, you don't even need to go as far as the touchy-feely "it would mess up your relationships with everyone who wasn't super-rich themselves in terms of envy, motive suspicion etc., in a way which would seriously depress anyone who wasn't a sociopath". No, there'd be a much more immediate and drastic impact on your life in terms of having to worry every day and night about the risk of kidnap of your nearest and dearest.
If I ever won a huge rollover on the Euromillions, say 40 or 50 million quid, I'd be totally paranoid about such things, and that's a tiny fraction - less than 1 per cent - of the wealth of most of those individuals.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
Yeah that's a good post EEG. Being mega-wealthy can lead you to insulate yourself from most other humans. A terrible way to live. Better than starving, obv, but not healthy. What a phenomenally stupidly run world we live in.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
Bored of Education wrote:
We are in a society that encourages a tiny but powerful minority to make lots of money so it is hardly a surprise that they do. Rather than attack the individuals for making money - unless they are actively participating in illegal or immoral activities, we have to change the system that enables this.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
- Martin Luther King.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
Why hate the rich? It's hard to fathom.
A third of the population will not reach 60 in good health. And it’s income, not lifestyle, to blame
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
Pietro Paolo Virdis wrote: Seriosly, if you look at what they've all made their fortune on. To be rich on diamonds, porn, internet, internet-porn, banking, media, pharma, oil, telecom. That might be one thing. But how do you think #38 should be treated?
Warren Buffett, it should be mentioned, has long been an advocate of harsher taxation on wealth. But he's not a legislator, and he can't make it happen. Instead he founded The Giving Pledge, getting the world's billionaires to donate most of their money to charities within their lifetime. Most on that list, above, have signed on to do so. Gates most notably, I'd say.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
TonTon wrote: Why hate the rich? It's hard to fathom.
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TonTon wrote: It's always nice when thieves give a little stolen money away and expect plaudits for it.
Most of them earned it. Same way you earn yours. They just earned more of it.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
That's just silly. I mean, I don't expect us ever to agree in this area at all, which is fine.
Getting and being rich are things people do. And they have consequences.
No-one becomes rich from their own work, but from the work of others, which they take a large part of the value of for themselves.
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If you hate all the other, is #38 okey?
TonTon wrote: No-one becomes rich from their own work, but from the work of others, which they take a large part of the value of for themselves.
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