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Have you not looked at wall street and seen people shooting up drugs or people in our government who have been accused of sexual misconduct myriad times? How ab

Have you not looked at wall street and seen people shooting up drugs or people in our government who have been accused of sexual misconduct myriad times? How about that those same people who are responsible for making many of those people homeless in the first place skating and allowed to bring us on the verge of financial collapse again? Where is the moral high ground for these people?

icebraining 8y ago
Many of those are reviled as well. "just 31 percent look favorably on corporate executives and Wall Street" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-19/wall-street-efforts-to-improve-its-image-fail-to-sway-americans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-19/wall-stre...
stale2002 8y ago
Ok, and if I were to walk in downtown NYC, next to the the stock exchange, would these wall street traders start harassing me when I am just trying to get where I am going? No, that doesn't happen. Do you see the difference?
- clairity 8y ago
  yeah, unlike wall street, i get to choose when i give money to homeless people.
- snackbugs 8y ago
  Those financial workers whined and threw fits to receive federal bailouts while everyone else's futures and livelihoods were on fire with no chance of the same white-glove treatment. The banal dichotomy you're trying to illustrate here is just a rationalization for sorting humanity by their wealth.
  - stale2002 8y ago
    All I am saying is that they never accosted me on the street for a bailout. They may have "threw fits" metaphorically, but they did not do so to me in the streets, literally.
    - snackbugs 8y ago
      No, literally threw fits on public television in plain view of people who had lost their jobs without severance or unemployment assistance. But keep insisting that shitting your pants when a homeless person asks you for change is a normal and human reaction.
      - stale2002 8y ago
        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The interaction you are describing, of me being accosted by a suited wall street trader, has never happened to me. And I'd bet that it has never happened to basically every other people out there. Now, getting assaulted by a homeless person on the other hand.... That's probably happened to at least 50% of people. > asks you for change No. I'm talking about assault and violence, actually.
        snackbugs 8y ago
        >That's probably happened to at least 50% of people This and every other word in your reply is in complete bad faith. Have fun posting here.
ummonk 8y ago
Hate isn't some limited quantity, such that hating the chronically homeless precludes you from hating rich and wealthy sexual abusers or people who will recklessly create financial bubbles in search of wealth (although I'd argue that today's most notable example of unregulated financial systems would be cryptocurrencies, although the cryptocurrency bubble isn't as big as the financial bubble of '08 - yet).

icebraining 8y ago

Many of those are reviled as well. "just 31 percent look favorably on corporate executives and Wall Street" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-19/wall-street-efforts-to-improve-its-image-fail-to-sway-americans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-19/wall-stre...

stale2002 8y ago

Ok, and if I were to walk in downtown NYC, next to the the stock exchange, would these wall street traders start harassing me when I am just trying to get where I am going? No, that doesn't happen. Do you see the difference?

clairity 8y ago
yeah, unlike wall street, i get to choose when i give money to homeless people.
snackbugs 8y ago
Those financial workers whined and threw fits to receive federal bailouts while everyone else's futures and livelihoods were on fire with no chance of the same white-glove treatment. The banal dichotomy you're trying to illustrate here is just a rationalization for sorting humanity by their wealth.
- stale2002 8y ago
  All I am saying is that they never accosted me on the street for a bailout. They may have "threw fits" metaphorically, but they did not do so to me in the streets, literally.
  - snackbugs 8y ago
    No, literally threw fits on public television in plain view of people who had lost their jobs without severance or unemployment assistance. But keep insisting that shitting your pants when a homeless person asks you for change is a normal and human reaction.
    - stale2002 8y ago
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The interaction you are describing, of me being accosted by a suited wall street trader, has never happened to me. And I'd bet that it has never happened to basically every other people out there. Now, getting assaulted by a homeless person on the other hand.... That's probably happened to at least 50% of people. > asks you for change No. I'm talking about assault and violence, actually.
      - snackbugs 8y ago
        >That's probably happened to at least 50% of people This and every other word in your reply is in complete bad faith. Have fun posting here.

ummonk 8y ago

Hate isn't some limited quantity, such that hating the chronically homeless precludes you from hating rich and wealthy sexual abusers or people who will recklessly create financial bubbles in search of wealth (although I'd argue that today's most notable example of unregulated financial systems would be cryptocurrencies, although the cryptocurrency bubble isn't as big as the financial bubble of '08 - yet).