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Oh no; the rich aren't rich enough guys!

• smitherfield 10y ago
  I mean, it's a pretty common sentiment around these parts. (Replace "London" with "Bay Area") (It's a very rare person who ever thinks of themselves as "rich enough." Most billionaires don't)
  • toephu2 10y ago
    How many billionaires do you personally know?
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    • HippoViolation 10y ago
      One. can confirm!
• yomly 10y ago
  While I do enjoy the irony of this situation and your post, the schadenfreud isn't helpful. We're all in this boat together: When an unbridgeable gap is opening up between even the traditional "elite" (bankers, lawyers, consultants, doctors and now software engineers) and the 1% you have a real problem with social mobility. If a country has decent access to education, it's not unreasonable to aspire to reach the "elite" with some smarts, luck and grit. That fundamental hope is what ticks over the capitalist incentivisation we have based our economics on. It's what inspired my parents to leave their home country and climb many socioeconomic rungs. If you remove that belief in the system, people start signing out of society and then you have a big problem. Like Brexit. Like Trump. Then suddenly war doesn't seem so impossible anymore...