Because he is rich, he is by definition superior to you. Period.

[kpete]

First and foremost, Rice is that most revered of Randite moral beings, a "wealth creator".

A noble "maker" not a mooching "taker".

He is rich and famous because he generates sufficient cash flow for his employers, in a profession which ruthlessly winnows its employees based on earning potential.

And because Rice is a "maker" and not a "taker", by Libertarian/Randite dogma, he need not be constrained by conventional bourgeois categories of morality.


http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-mammon-as-big-as-ritz.html

[Shrike47]

1. Can an employee be a wealth creator? I thought that only applied to the owner.

Rice is a profitable unit to his employer, but ultimately fungible with a similarly profitable unit. I think in that mindset, the owner is the maker, not the taker. Rice is a thing, not a person.

I recently reviewed the plot of Atlas Shrugged. If she believed in what she wrote, Ayn Rand was a psychopath.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Doesn't matter. Players and rappers embody young boys' dreams.

And WE and fans promote that hopeless empty dreaming.

Bread and circuses, baby!

[LittleBlue]

3. The rich can basically do what they want, when they want

Even if they break the law, they plead affluenza or some nonsense.

Who can argue with it? In the US, they are better than the rest of us.

[cali]

4. this strikes me as made up nonsense. Who reveres Rice as a "wealth creator"? Where is that to be

found?

Not to mention that he's no longer employed and was widely reviled for his despicable behavior.

I don't like made up garbage that's shoehorned into an ill fitting construct. There are far better ways to make an argument.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. That is the ENTIRE premise behind that old southern saying.......

"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" THIS attitude, an attitude that I've been around all my life and I'm OLD, is why it's so difficult to build class consciousness in the southern USA. A worship of wealth.

[rock]

6. How rich was Hitler?

See where I'm going with this?