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[Bret Cahill]

"You haven't been paying attention if you haven't observed the rich
stealing from the poor."

What can you steal from people who have nothing?

Thanks,
Rich

Poor is different than having nothing.

He may have meant cash or tangible assets.

Yes, undoubtedly.  

This isn't to suggest that _some_ rich don't go cruising the ghetto
looking for some hi tops to steal, just that it isn't common or
necessary.

It's certain that if some great game changing event like a combination
of climate change and quantum computing ever leveled everyone to
subsistence level lifestyles that many of the former rich would turn
out to be, to put it delicately, "resourceful."

Interesting.   I think nearly everyone means monetary wealth when they
differentiate rich and poor.

They will laugh at spiritual wealth and they apparently have never
been told about intellectual property law.

We sell people on what they "need" often not making a distinction on
need and want.  Marketing manipulation is very successful in the
developed world and is being exported to the developing world.

Some folks are able to possess a lot and still feel poor.  

A recent silly study said the happiest English made 100K /year about
$180,000/yr.

A study on the incomes of the most desperate isn't necessary as
everyone already knows the maximum of that function.

We are
taught from birth that money buys happiness, and that idea  is
continually reinforced.  We begin to see our own importance in terms
of relative monetary wealth or the acquisition of conspicuous
"things."

The goal in life is happiness and satisfaction;   everything else is
secondary,  but you'd never guess it listening to the marketeers,
politicos, or religions of the world.  Wealth and power - theirs not
yours.

Payday loans, rent to own schemes, televangelists, lotteries, etc.
are perfect examples, where marketing and manipulation are big
business and the poor are their biggest customers.

And then you have the media doing everything possible to Jerry
Springerize the political debate.

Bret Cahill

The fact that Jerry Springer, Sarah Palin, Glen Beck and a host of
others draw so large a following, suggests that scads  of people are
unable or unwilling to do their own thinking.  

Alternatives are censored from the political debate.


Bret Cahill


"Happiness? Only an Englishman wants happiness."

-- Nietzsche