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> the wealthy person gets their way all the time and the poor person gets what's to them a lot of money and everyone is happy. Rather than everyone being happ

by zorpner 13y ago

> the wealthy person gets their way all the time and the poor person gets what's to them a lot of money and everyone is happy. Rather than everyone being happy, this (historically) ends rather more often in bloody revolution. Personally, I believe that one rarely understands other people, and has no chance of understanding other people's relationships, so I'm disinclined to say that this is a bad idea. It's your relationship and I hope it works out well for you. But if anyone I knew told me that this is how they were operating, I'd have a hard time staying friends. Intimate relationships (romantic and otherwise) are based on releasing control and making compromises, and taking an accounting of everything in this way indicates not that you're being fair, but that you're not actually in a "relationship" per se.

jamesaguilar 13y ago
Poor people getting what seems like a lot of money to them -> bloody revolution? When? It seems like bloody revolution normally follows poor people NOT seeing improvement in their standard of living.
- zorpner 13y ago
  Typically, it follows the wealthy class saying "what seems like a lot of money to them" out loud.
  - jamesaguilar 13y ago
    I know you are trying to joke, but I was asking a serious question. I do not believe your claim is substantiated in the historical record. Revolutions do not typically occur when the standards of life for the poor are improving by virtue of receiving quickly growing pay.
    - zorpner 13y ago
      Fair enough, but I'm not joking either -- it's true that many revolts happen in the context of abject conditions, but it's more common for (particularly successful) revolution to occur in the context of a less-than-impovershed class (e.g. a merchant class) experiencing a collective realization that they're being systemically oppressed by the ruling class appeasing them with what the ruling class sees as a pittance that will pacify them. The French Revolution is the classic example of this phenomenon.

by zorpner 13y ago

jamesaguilar 13y ago

Poor people getting what seems like a lot of money to them -> bloody revolution? When? It seems like bloody revolution normally follows poor people NOT seeing improvement in their standard of living.

zorpner 13y ago
Typically, it follows the wealthy class saying "what seems like a lot of money to them" out loud.
- jamesaguilar 13y ago
  I know you are trying to joke, but I was asking a serious question. I do not believe your claim is substantiated in the historical record. Revolutions do not typically occur when the standards of life for the poor are improving by virtue of receiving quickly growing pay.
  - zorpner 13y ago
    Fair enough, but I'm not joking either -- it's true that many revolts happen in the context of abject conditions, but it's more common for (particularly successful) revolution to occur in the context of a less-than-impovershed class (e.g. a merchant class) experiencing a collective realization that they're being systemically oppressed by the ruling class appeasing them with what the ruling class sees as a pittance that will pacify them. The French Revolution is the classic example of this phenomenon.