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The 1%
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01/02/2014 11:04:02
 
 
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01/02/2014 11:02:03
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Finances
Category:
Investment
Title:
Re: The 1%
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Thread ID:
01592816
Message ID:
01592851
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>>>>>>>> and the difficulty of attaining the dream of being rich.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>Especially when its perpetually defined as "having more money than I do right now".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Maybe you should stop dreaming and realize that 99% of the people in the world have far less than you.
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>>>>>>Maybe you should stop making assumptions.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Maybe.
>>>>>
>>>>>I asked where you wound up on the global rich list.
>>>>>
>>>>>You didn't answer. I think I can assume you hit the 1%.
>>>>>
>>>>>You could have always just answered. Then I would have never had to assume.
>>>>
>>>>It is not the assumptions about where I am on the list, which is not particularly difficult to imagine anyway. But you made a whole bunch of assumptions about me, what I think, what I expect from others, what I think about wealth and wealth inequality.
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>>>Look, some people see the glass half full, and some see it half empty. Yours in 99% full, and you seem to be focusing on the 1% that isn't.
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>>>I might be wrong in my assumptions.
>>>
>>>But from what you've posted, your concern is less about how good you've got it compared to the world and more about how bad you got it compared to a small group of people.
>>
>>More assumptions. Keep going.
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>
>Again, I could be wrong. Very possible. Often likely.
>
>Is it possible or likely that your value judgments are skewed?
>
>Is it possible that the attitude that causes this so-called problem is that people never feel they have enough money, and you're no different?

My friend, you are somewhere else completely. So I shall bow out and leave you to whatever you want to believe (that is what I have found people generally like to do anyway). Adios.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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