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Quartermass

(457 posts) Tue Dec 27, 2011, 01:38 PM Dec 2011

The 1% Should Live Like The Poor [View all]

I'd love to see the 1% live in a homeless shelter for thirty days or try to live on twelve hundred dollars a month for one year.

I think if they did that, then, at least one or two of them might actually learn what it is truly like to be poor, and maybe develop some empathy for us instead of trying to hoard all the wealth they can wrangle out of us.

Sometimes the biggest of changes must start with the smallest of steps.

But as it stands now, the very wealthy have no empathy for the poor and care only for the money. Money is all they love.

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The 1% Should Live Like The Poor [View all] Quartermass Dec 2011 OP

I totally disagree anarch Dec 2011 #1

The problem isn't empathy, it's affinity. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 #2

That is why CEO's are paid in company stock, and others get irrational bonuses. WingDinger Dec 2011 #5

Just ask Bernny Madoff Cigar11 Dec 2011 #3

I had a landlady that was sentenced to three months in her own slum apartment building. WingDinger Dec 2011 #4

problem is... FirstLight Dec 2011 #6

They should use far, far fewer resources than they universally do, that's for sure! Zorra Dec 2011 #7

That would teach them! Mosaic Dec 2011 #8

Many years ago Mayor Jane Byrne (Chgo) went to live in one of the worst housing projects here. Peregrine Took Dec 2011 #9

You know, not everybody in the top 1% are assholes... WI_DEM Dec 2011 #10

Waste of time trying to make them see the light. Modern_Matthew Dec 2011 #11

Hey that seems like a great idea for a reality TV show. MedicalAdmin Dec 2011 #12

Ignorance is bliss, and they love their bliss. /nt Festivito Dec 2011 #13

Hyperinflation is the only way they'll ever get it Zalatix Dec 2011 #14

Wouldn't work Courtesy Flush Dec 2011 #15

many 1% types lack empathy tabbycat31 Dec 2011 #16