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You can make a living in organized crime. You can make a living polluting the environment. You can make a living defending corruption, helping the rich grow r
by RodgerTheGreat 6y ago
You can make a living in organized crime.
You can make a living polluting the environment.
You can make a living defending corruption, helping the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
The problems of the wealthy are as the problems of a tick sucking the lifeblood from a host. Rest assured that extending them empathy and compassion will be a strictly one-sided arrangement when push comes to shove.
- chuckSu 6y agoMaking a living off “rich people problems” has nothing to do with empathy. If their problems put food on my table you best believe I’m going to cater to their bullshit. If it makes me rich even better
- GeorgeRichard 6y agoBig parasites have little parasites.
- taneq 6y agoSo, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum
- rtx 6y ago>strictly one-sided arrangement Because we are going to eat the rich, right?
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoI can settle with wealth redistribution. Or, perhaps, if the rich are so much better than us mere mortals, they can play the game with handicaps, the same handicaps mere mortals have.
- dschuler 6y agoI've worked with and lived around both poor and relatively rich people, but I can't say that the rich stand out as lacking empathy or compassion specifically. From my experience I would say the opposite is true, creating "anti network-effects" for many poor people. There seems to be growing resentment of "the rich" recently, but I believe that's misplaced. Things will get worse for "the poor" until the cause is diagnosed correctly.
- ansible 6y agoI don't know that the rich are above-average in lacking empathy or compassion. Though there does seem to be a correlation between wealth and ruthlessness, which isn't exactly the same thing. However, when we see bad behavior from the rich, like the Koch brothers, their wealth amplifies the bad behavior and it seems to have an outsized effect upon the world.
- brokenkebab 6y ago>correlation between wealth and ruthlessness Any numbers to support this? Or you just believe so?
- ansible 6y agoHow many billionaires can I name that fit the label "ruthless"? How many are there that don't? Maybe not Gates, but Steve Ballmer. Larry fricken' Ellison. Terry and TC Gou. Koch Brothers. Musk & Bezos. The list goes on and on.
- TomSwirly 6y agoJudge people by their overall actions. The top richest Americans have sucked out all the extra value created in society for the last two generations, while offloading a great deal of risk onto individuals, who are the least likely to be able to bear it. Overall, we are in the process of destroying our ecosystem, and again, the richest people on the planet consume and waste literally _orders of magnitude_ more than the poorest. You having met some rich people who are also nice is just an anecdote.
- vmception 6y agookay. whatever particular wealthy that you are thinking about is not all or likely not most. I would also like to point out that everyone's anecdotes about "their wealthy friends not tipping or dropping change to beggars" are not the same people you are thinking about.