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Originally Posted by Shotsie
He wrote Carrie and most of his early short stories in the laundry room of a trailer he lived in and on breaks while he was working at an industrial laundry, while his wife supplemented their income with a job at Dunkin Donuts. He was raised by a single mother on welfare. He lives in a middle-class neighborhood in Maine. He donates millions of dollars a year to charities around his community. Yeah, he's got a mansion in Florida, the guy's worth 400 million.
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Wealthy people donate to charities because there are tax incentives to do so. Not because they are better human beings than those who don't.
I personally don't care what the guy does. His criticism is regarding what everyone else does and thats what i take offense to. I just get tired of hearing super wealthy people talk about "Fair" as if their own perspective on life as it pertains to day to day people of middle income families isn't severely skewed. I don't appreciate it from Michael Moore. I don't appreciate it from Arnold Schwartzenegger or anyone else no matter what their politics are. This also goes for the idiot career politicians who have always been wealthy or were born into wealth.
You never see any of these people giving away their wealth and living in a 1200 sq foot house in the outskirts of Dubuque.. they want to keep their wealth as they tell everyone what others should do with theirs.