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Originally Posted by gleem
Bullshit. Rich people spend tons. How many jobs you think a rich person creates and supports when he buys a mansion, (company full of employees to build it, housekeepers, gardeners, nannies to maintain), boat (company full of employees to build it, deckhands, captain storage & maintenance mechanics to keep it running). I know plenty of people in the 1% and they tend to spend a shitload of money and balance it out with saving some as well.
I know 2 people in the 1% that never made more than 50k in a single year.
Personally I have been in and out of the 1% myself almost 4 times in my career, and when I wasn't in it, I didn't ask anyone to give me money, I just worked harder.
You idiots who think no one is entitled to keep the majority of the fruits of his labor are nothing short than jealous GREEDY assholes. Sure a tiny portion of the 1% inherited the money and never worked a day in their lives, they can fuck off, but that's under 0.1% of the population. Both sides of this argument are serving Kool-Aide, but the marxist message seems to have a bit more sugar in it. Drink up losers.
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How do you justify the average CEO salary being 335 times that of an average employee? Just in 1998 it was about half that. If things continue to go this way, we'll eventually see the average CEO making 1000 times what the average worker does.
As for the 'anyone can get rich' idea.. sure in theory but just about all of those hugely successful people have some kind ot catalytic event that propels them towards success and without, most likely would never of achieved such success. It could come from a connection that person just happens to have vs another person with the exact same idea who didn't have that connection. Guess who will be successful? Or like the guy who was lucky enough to get a relative to lend him 100k of capital vs the guy who has no one to lend him capital, etc etc etc.