I don't respect that kind of wealth. Full Stop. (Reply #37)

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Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:34 PM

hunter (32,304 posts)

37. I don't respect that kind of wealth. Full Stop.

There ought to be a minimum wage and a minimum wealth, and taxes ought to be such that nobody enjoys more than twenty times that income or wealth.

Minimum wage $10 an hour, maximum wage $200 an hour. Minimum wealth a cot and a locker, maximum wealth twenty times that space.

You see how this works...

If the CEO of a company wants to own a big fat penthouse suite and be driven around in a limo, the lowest paid employees get comfortable suites in the same building, park their own utilitarian cars in the same garage, and ride the same elevator.

In this scenario those prone to hoarding wealth have a very strong incentive to make sure their own good fortune really does "trickle down."

The game playing stops. Everyone's kids go to the same schools, everyone shops in the same places, and everyone's lives are "real." Nobody exists in an insulated "bubble" of wealth.

What's that you say? It takes away "incentive???" Nonsense. Anyone who would pay an employee starvation wages while traveling through life first class is up to no good or has been corrupted by the system.

I can't respect that. They are all Justin Biebers, but worse, because they are not stupid kids.

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Why dislike the super rich? Envious? Jealous? That's what they think. [View all]	SomethingFishy	Jan 2014	OP
Joe Strummer sang it best:	FSogol	Jan 2014	#1
When Donald Trump was asked how much money was enough...	MicaelS	Jan 2014	#2
yet he still can't get a good looking hair piece	rurallib	Jan 2014	#20
I think that mat on his head is really his own hair	madokie	Jan 2014	#40
you mean a barber would do that to him?	rurallib	Jan 2014	#41
Money talks	madokie	Jan 2014	#42
They just don't get it that we hate them because they've robbed us of the fruits of our labor	Warpy	Jan 2014	#3
Exactly...	SomethingFishy	Jan 2014	#4
The Roman vomitoriums.	EC	Jan 2014	#27
Wow, I'm agreeing with you!	ReRe	Jan 2014	#28
The productivity of the American worker has gone through the roof in the last several decades.	trotsky	Jan 2014	#36
+1 n/t	Alkene	Jan 2014	#51
I have no desire to be around them and certainly would never want to be like them	deutsey	Jan 2014	#62
I have been around some of them	Warpy	Jan 2014	#65
I never envy sociopaths... nt	Bigmack	Jan 2014	#5
It's really pretty simple.	Jackpine Radical	Jan 2014	#6
Mmm. Some truth there for sure..	SomethingFishy	Jan 2014	#9
Someone posted on FB yesterday	mac56	Jan 2014	#25
That's a good one. nt	laundry_queen	Jan 2014	#45
Why dislike the rich?	ladym55	Jan 2014	#7
I dislike them because they are takers with their hands in everyone's pockets, nothing but	Raine	Jan 2014	#8
They call it "the politics of envy"	gollygee	Jan 2014	#10
Wow. Lots of hating on Alan Grayson, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, the Kennedys, and John Kerry,	Nye Bevan	Jan 2014	#11
There is a difference between SUPER RICH and Rich..	SomethingFishy	Jan 2014	#12
Oxfam's "Working for the Few" report, for those who haven't seen it yet	Electric Monk	Jan 2014	#14
All rich people are not assholes, just the majority.	juajen	Jan 2014	#18
You probably know rich people without knowing that they are rich.	Nye Bevan	Jan 2014	#31
Oh bullshit. They just want to be unnoticed in their thievery.	lonestarnot	Jan 2014	#39
You mean upper middle class?	Quantess	Jan 2014	#53
So the problem is the Nancy Pelosis? (net worth $100 million)	Nye Bevan	Jan 2014	#57
Do they parade around calling Obama a Socialist, flashing their rolexes and claiming victimhood?	tenderfoot	Jan 2014	#64
somehow	marions ghost	Jan 2014	#46
Really, you can't differentiate between the ones you mentioned...	ReRe	Jan 2014	#30
I don't respect that kind of wealth. Full Stop.	hunter	Jan 2014	#37
Interesting - I have not heard one of those people complain about having to pay higher taxes	tenderfoot	Jan 2014	#63
Being billionaire is obscene IMHO	rickyhall	Jan 2014	#13
So you consider JK Rowling to be an "obscenity"? (nt)	Nye Bevan	Jan 2014	#44
J K Rowling is no longer a billionaire...	prairierose	Jan 2014	#48
+1 nt	laundry_queen	Jan 2014	#56
succinctly put.	heaven05	Jan 2014	#15
Their only God is money and they have no conscience.	Triana	Jan 2014	#16
+1	ReRe	Jan 2014	#32
It's because they buy our government	florida08	Jan 2014	#17
Exactly!	ReRe	Jan 2014	#33
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.	lumberjack_jeff	Jan 2014	#19
see that's the thing	LittleGirl	Jan 2014	#21
Hoarders.......of $$$.	yourout	Jan 2014	#22
I love the super rich! They are going to fill up Hell one day	Rex	Jan 2014	#23
rec	frwrfpos	Jan 2014	#24
Isaac Asimov was once chased down by an outraged 1%-er . . .	cer7711	Jan 2014	#26
Gawd, I hope that's a true story!	Dark n Stormy Knight	Jan 2014	#49
It Is! Asimov Recounts It . . .	cer7711	Jan 2014	#52
Read about the junkie screwing a whole country out of its natural resources wealth	undeterred	Jan 2014	#29
I have no problem with how money one has.	deathrind	Jan 2014	#34
The High Priests of our national religion, Capitalism.	Skeeter Barnes	Jan 2014	#35
Because I don't like liars and thieves and the big I little you syndrome that possesses them.	lonestarnot	Jan 2014	#38
They're assholes and they're takers and fuck them.	Iggo	Jan 2014	#43
The rich	marions ghost	Jan 2014	#47
I went to graduate school at an Ivy League university after graduating from a	Lydia Leftcoast	Jan 2014	#50
I could care less about the super rich	Puzzledtraveller	Jan 2014	#54
So do you think it would be better if Kentucky had a republican	B Calm	Jan 2014	#58
I do not recall implying that.	Puzzledtraveller	Jan 2014	#59
My old employer didn't have the money to give us a decent raise, but had the money	B Calm	Jan 2014	#55
I personally don't dislike (super) rich people;	Jamaal510	Jan 2014	#60
Because so many have all the solipsism of your average abuser	booley	Jan 2014	#61

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