Damn ultra-rich elite controlling the world's governments through lobbying and shady tactics and getting laws passed to eliminate any resistance from the docile masses, who are informed by the media (which the ultra-rich control, obvz) that everything's fine and they should just go on like everything's normal.
What a bummer.
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If the ultra-rich didn't control everything there would be no point to being ultra-rich.
I'd think having a giant house, any car, hot tubs, giant TVs, and really anything you want wouldn't be enough, don't see why it has to turn into a controlling the masses and trying to undermine society for everyone else thing.
Liquid Wind posted... If the ultra-rich didn't control everything there would be no point to being ultra-rich.
I'd think having a giant house, any car, hot tubs, giant TVs, and really anything you want wouldn't be enough, don't see why it has to turn into a controlling the masses and trying to undermine society for everyone else thing.
Precisely. If I had, say, 2 million dollars - enough to buy a nice house with some land, the car I want, all the gadgets and gizmos and furniture and skis and golf clubs and whatever other crap I want, and use the rest to invest so that I'll be financially secure for the rest of my life - I'd say, "this is enough."
I don't get the undermining of society greed thing, either.
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"SMOKEDOG42O taught me how to feel love, but fetus taught me how to make love." - Pablo Escobar
2 million actually isn't that much(though more than half of us will ever see), but it does get completely ridiculous where people have multiple mansions, private jets, are set for life etc but they still try to exploit everyone else for more money because it's an ego thing. they couldn't spend it all if they tried but they have to do whatever it takes to pad that number
SMOKEDOG42O posted... Precisely. If I had, say, 2 million dollars - enough to buy a nice house with some land, the car I want, all the gadgets and gizmos and furniture and skis and golf clubs and whatever other crap I want, and use the rest to invest so that I'll be financially secure for the rest of my life - I'd say, "this is enough."
I don't get the undermining of society greed thing, either.
$2 million, by comparison, would be nothing. Nowhere near enough to be on their level money-wise.
Falcon120 posted... $2 million, by comparison, would be nothing. Nowhere near enough to be on their level money-wise.
Like I said, I wouldn't be looking to compete. I'd be content with my comfortable life and wouldn't see the need to earn more and more and more and more.
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"SMOKEDOG42O taught me how to feel love, but fetus taught me how to make love." - Pablo Escobar
No one 'staged' 9/11. They might very well have known it was coming and la dee da looked the other way so they could do that annihilating of the Constitution, but that's different
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UltimaterializerX posted... Money isn't their aim, a control grid is. When you're rich enough, you quite literally make the money yourself and it stops becoming an object. There's a reason those people staged 9/11. And even if you believe the official fairy tale for how 9/11 happened, there is no denying that it's been used for 10 years to absolutely annihilate the constitution and bill of rights.
I sat here for a little bit trying to think of something funny to say about this, but the only thing I can think of to say is "This is stupid, you are stupid, stop being stupid".
So, this is stupid, you are stupid, stop being stupid.
I wouldn't go as far as to say 9/11 was staged, but what deathchicken said could be feasible, the patriot act was already waiting before it happened -_- regardless of what happened, there's no denying that, in a show of how little conscience these people have, they just treated it as an opportunity to start tearing down the foundation of the country. 9/11 wasn't a tragedy to the politicians and wealthy elite, it was simply a fortuitous tool that fell into their lap.
Chomsky's been talking about this for years! This is also what the OWS movement was about but everyone hated them because the media successfully painted them as crazy grasping hippies.