Greed, it isnt just for the rich anymore.

[NLXSK1]

And it never was... Which is why I find that people accusing the rich of being greedy by trying to keep more of their own money annoying.

As if the welfare mom deciding to pop out another kid for a larger check isnt greedy. As if the whole occupy wall street movement with their universal cry for "Give us MORE" isnt greedy.

Why dont you just replace the word greed with Human. Because greed knows no class or income level and there is no more of it in the rich than the poor. The rich just happen to be more successful at it.

Thoughts?

 

[NoDrama]

Whatever happened to being poor and looking up to a well to do person who made himself and realizing that you too could do it and also become wealthy. Nope, today we just bitch about people who have nice things, as if our mere existence should qualify us for McMansions, Ferraris and a life of leisure.

 

[spitsbuds]

agree and one of the most greedy people of all are addicts and that's labeled as a illness. people who stuff there face and become o beast are greedy(i know same as the addict there more underlined issues that contribute to the problem butt the bottom line is youre greedy lol) but that also now is becoming a illness we as a society are perceiving and misunderstanding the meaning of greed and is said and as become a negative labell because the lines have become blurred like you said a careful person who uses wisdom when it comes to his/her finance is labelled greedy when he she is just been smart but giving that label more out of envy then an a accurate opinion

 

[spandy]

I agree, but its hard to swallow that when i was a kid, the rich people had millions and had a second home on the lake.

Now they have billions and they own the lake.

 

[fenderburn84]

Whatever happened to being poor and looking up to a well to do person who made himself and realizing that you too could do it and also become wealthy. Nope, today we just bitch about people who have nice things, as if our mere existence should qualify us for McMansions, Ferraris and a life of leisure.

What ever happened to when a person COULD come up from nothing. Thank G-D I have a job and my degrees aren't so much toilet paper like so many others. I have classmates who can't find work even at McDONALD'S because they are over qualified. What happened to opportunity? A chance to rise above your parents? I know I took a huge leap ahead of mine but it doesn't seem that is a real option for most anymore and that's sad.

 

[UncleBuck]

And it never was... Which is why I find that people accusing the rich of being greedy by trying to keep more of their own money annoying.

As if the welfare mom deciding to pop out another kid for a larger check isnt greedy. As if the whole occupy wall street movement with their universal cry for "Give us MORE" isnt greedy.

Why dont you just replace the word greed with Human. Because greed knows no class or income level and there is no more of it in the rich than the poor. The rich just happen to be more successful at it.

Thoughts?

road brush strokes here.

not even worth responding to, really.

 

[sync0s]

What ever happened to when a person COULD come up from nothing. Thank G-D I have a job and my degrees aren't so much toilet paper like so many others. I have classmates who can't find work even at McDONALD'S because they are over qualified. What happened to opportunity? A chance to rise above your parents? I know I took a huge leap ahead of mine but it doesn't seem that is a real option for most anymore and that's sad.

Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell. Average people with huge goals turned the CEO's of these companies into the top 20 richest in America.

You can still do it.

 

[fenderburn84]

I'm doing quite well for now, I just worry about my kids. With no one retiring any more there are gonna be no jobs open when it comes to be their time.

 

[WillyBagseed]

Not a damn thing wrong with being wealthy UNLESS...

You take a huge pay raise at the expense of pay cuts, health benefit cuts, layoffs, firings, outsourcing and general fuck the little guy so the CEO and board can make more.

Making money and being wealthy is not the issue, the issue is how many people you fuck over to get it.

Back in the day you might find yourself without a head for fucking too many of the little people over....... might be nice to have that come back.


If you are a small business owner you get to pay yourself whatever, you own it.

 

[sso]

i think the O poster, has never been on welfare.

pop out another kid for a larger check? (..hemm hemm, perhaps a few retarded individuals, but its rare..)

 

[canndo]

It has nothing to do with how much money you have or how much you want - it has to do with how you treat those who don't have as much as you. A health insurance CEO who instructs his company to look for ways to deprive a cancer ridden woman of chemo so the company can save 40,000 dollars while he takes home 20 million is greed on a scale that the poor can't manage to muster.

 

[Carne Seca]

And it never was... Which is why I find that people accusing the rich of being greedy by trying to keep more of their own money annoying.

As if the welfare mom deciding to pop out another kid for a larger check isnt greedy. As if the whole occupy wall street movement with their universal cry for "Give us MORE" isnt greedy.

Why dont you just replace the word greed with Human. Because greed knows no class or income level and there is no more of it in the rich than the poor. The rich just happen to be more successful at it.

Thoughts?

Here we go with this bullshit again.

 

[canndo]

Here we go with this bullshit again.

How have the rich managed to convince the middle class and yes, some of the poor, that the rich need those classes to defend them? If only the poor, those who actually need it could get such untiring defense.

 

[Carne Seca]

The truly sad part is you actually believe this shit.

 

[NLXSK1]

The truly sad part is you actually believe this shit.

Believe that all people are human and greed has no class or race? Yes, yes I do believe that shit...

 

[UncleBuck]

Believe that all people are human and greed has no class or race? Yes, yes I do believe that shit...

is someone who collects garbage for a living and wants a $2 per hour raise so he can have a better chance at sending his kids to college 'greedy'?

is a CEO who slashes health care benefits so he can feed himself a $2.2 million bonus instead of a $2 million bonus 'greedy'?

like i said, broad strokes are broad, and not really worth responding to. shame on me.

 

[NLXSK1]

is someone who collects garbage for a living and wants a $2 per hour raise so he can have a better chance at sending his kids to college 'greedy'?

is a CEO who slashes health care benefits so he can feed himself a $2.2 million bonus instead of a $2 million bonus 'greedy'?

like i said, broad strokes are broad, and not really worth responding to. shame on me.

So, when I say that everyone is human you reject that as a broad brush stroke?

Who are you racist against?

 

[UncleBuck]

So, when I say that everyone is human you reject that as a broad brush stroke?

Who are you racist against?

i don't disagree with the assertion, i disagree with your application of the label in real life.

i would consider myself prejudiced against gypsies, or romas, or travelers. whatever the hell those beggars and thieves call themselves

 

[thump easy]

greed is every day life i been burn so much in like.. that i should just be ashes by now..

 

[NLXSK1]

BTW, what if the corporate CEO spent that 2.2 million dollars on a donation for a new hospital wing? Would he be considered greedy then?

Is it who gets screwed and who benefits how you decide whether it is greed or altruism?