>>My friend, you are somewhere else completely. So I shall bow out and leave you to whatever you want to believe about me (that is what I have found people generally like to do anyway). Adios.
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>Fair enough.
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>I see posts on a regular basis about how evil are the rich people are.
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>Nobody wants to hear that they are extremely wealthy on a global scale, or that they fund human exploitation and environmental disasters with their purchases of what are essentially luxury items (nobody will die if they don't get new smartphones or Starbucks coffee).
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>Nobody wants to hear that they should change their individual choices and make large individual sacrifices unless it magically changes things dramatically.
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>But its true and it should be said.

OK, one more post and then adios. The mistake you are making in this thread, Mike, is that you assume you know something about my thinking on wealth and poverty in general from the article link posted. However, you do not. You do not know what I think about poverty or inequality or human suffering or environment effects of consumption or my role and responsibility in it all or anything. Nothing. And so you make assumptions, which is entirely your prerogative, but they are nonetheless assumptions.