Posted on 12/05/2014 8:28:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When you have an economic system based on forcing money from the top 2-49% to the bottom 50% you’ll have a 1% richer than the dreams of kings. It’s because typically the best group at holding and expanding the economy is the middle to upper middle class. When you have dollars sent down lower against market principles, it flies right to the top and stays there.
You see it every time the welfare and entitlement state expands. The inequality explodes.
Sorry - I can't get past the author's weird belief that Chris Rock's ramblings contain profound nuggets of wisdom that can help us all live better lives.
Some way or another they are built into the ticket price. A price I sure don’t want to pay, lol.
This makes it sound like people don’t know that wealthy people live different lives. Well...duh. I don’t live like a wealthy person by any means....but I live better than people that make less money than I do.
It is what is called...”The Way It Is”.
Chris Rock is one of the dumbest black people to ever live
If you could wave a magic wand and eliminate the emotion of envy tomorrow, the democrats would never win another election. They are the party of fruits, nuts, and people envious of what other people have.
More Socialist/Communist agitprop.
No doubt the article is liberally sprinkled with lies and dramatically false statistics to make a seemingly persuasive case against America and Capitalism. Just following in Marx’s footsteps.
It’s not so much that he has profound nuggets of wisdom, but that he can present the staggeringly obvious in an unavoidable & irrefutable way that many humans of the wrong shade would be demonized for attempting.
Chris Rock still has the juvenile delusion that everything must be fair..
Whatever “fair” means.. which varys by people that want FREE stuff..
-OR- do not want to work for it.. -OR- want something you have.. and they don’t...
-OR-are hustling RACE.. like Rock..
Once the government gets to decide how much you can have, who do you think will be the rich m..f...ers then?
Who was rich in the Soviet Union?
I believe it.
I have a Pinterest board named “Flying First Class”. Life is pretty cool with a lot of freebies if you are flying top of the line. But I think it depends on what you call free.
To get on a Virgin Airlines flight, you have to have a ticket. Everything is included in the ticket, the food, the drinks, the massage, all the perks. Was it free?
The most awesome are thing that come with a first class Emerites ticket. Lots!!!
Let me know if you want a lint to the Pinterest page.
OK, my “Flying First Class”. Emerites, Qatar and the Middle East are all the best for so-called free stuff
http://www.pinterest.com/terila9/flying-first-class/
If you believe the goodies you get in first-class air travel are free, you probably believe the room, board, shows, clubs and hookers high-end gamblers get in Vegas are free. (Oops, escorts, because you can’t get hookers in Vegas. Prostitution is illegal in Clark County. What? It is. Stop laughing.)
Now it is full top of the line sleeping garments, luxury brand name evening slippers, full size toiletries ... All of the champagne , you name the brand, that you can drink. All of the caviar you can eat, etc.
The pre-boarding lounges are even more luxurious.
So free food and massage, no problem.
I fly quite a bit, but I see airline flights as a way catch up on sleep, not as some alternative to a hotel bar or luxury spa.
the entire theory is killed off by the inclusion of Chris Rock in the beginning. Rock is a successful entertainer who came from nothing. Yet through hard work and good fortune, he is now a wealthy person with an amazing lifestyle.
I bet any one of us can think of ten people off the top of our heads that went from nothing to middle class upper middle class or outright wealthy.
We also have to remember that even poor people in America constitute the upper 1% of all mankind in lifestyle. Our poor are fat, cable watching, I-phone using, car drivers with three tv’s, two cars and no chance of starving to death.
Big-government advocates just do not understand the concept of working capital. When government takes all the profit, it is more difficult, even impossible, to grow a business, start a business, or advance economically as a family or individual.
Being an independent agent or associate of a larger company is one way around that concern. My total investment was a one-time $99.
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