Forum Post: Lets face it folks, If i make more money than you, then Im better than you...
Posted 12 years ago on March 13, 2012, 12:32 p.m. EST by freewriterguy
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Isnt this the country we live in? Or am I the only one to notice this.
A lot of people are born making more money than most people ever will. Are they just better from the get go?
That seems to be the official line from the more unabashed of the Randian libertarians who now dictate the economic policy of the Republican Party.
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They are better when it comes to who has more money... But there are many things to be better at. People value money more than virtue so money matters more to others more and more. That doesn't mean we have to be like that. Virtue matters to me more than anything. Integrity moves my soul like the sun spins the planets. Solidarity, forever!
If America were truly a meritocracy, that might indeed be true. But since we know America is the pinnacle of crony capitalism... well... yeah. ;-)
It has been an argument I've heard on these threads a lot from certain reactionary types. It sure isn't true, though.
That's capitalism for ya. Folks thinking money is everything when it's not.
Yes, this is the attitude in vogue. When I am confronted by such an attitude I ask, "So you are better than Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Mother Theresa, for recent examples.... Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha , and Lao Tzu? ... just because you learned how to gain shiny objects and hoard cash?"
"Then you have learned nothing in life."
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Better at making money.
Ha, but who are you making it from? Bank robbers might also pay you a lot of money.
Are you referring to people who steal from banks?
or
People who own/manage banks and steal from their clients with ridiculous fees?
I can tell you who "earns" more money in the long-run.
The former. But the point is you have to ask where you're money is coming from. People acquired a lot of booty coming over here to the Americas. It wasn't necessarily earned.
"They say this country was based on hard work and integrity and whats been done.
That’s a lie
It was built on murder man. Mayhem. Slavery. Oppression. Lies. Stealing. And tyranny. As a baseline"
I think that they think that. But in the end it only matters what you think
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Everyone makes more money than me and I'm pure trash. A pariah, outcast, ostracized, spat upon, kicked and ridiculed.
Yea, that whole "content of one's character" thing...that's for suckers! (sacasm intended)