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(58,785 posts)If we'd worked smarter and saved more we'd have more, but oh well.
No to whiny, complaining grievance politics bringing out the worst in all wired to indulge.
applegrove
(132,207 posts)forcing unions out and paying people a pittance that gives the ceo bonuses is getting success as others do the work for nothing. Try saving when you can't pay all your bills. Grrrr
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)who tend to be affluent but not genuinely wealthy. Though since imagining oneself better than others with less material accumulation is common to almost everyone, no doubt most do.
Of course, there's no way anyone could earn enormous wealth through work, but that's not the issue. If they could, the new classes WE allowed to develop would still be an existential threat to democracy and to our equality and all other rights secured under the law.
Justice Brandeis was right, Pelosi was right, and all who realize we have to undo that great danger WE have let develop are right.
There's always been only one path to stopping them: Voting Democratic to create unstoppable liberal majorities that can apply our principles. Again.
Biophilic
(6,552 posts)but never the monetary reward and only once or twice the position raise.