[quote=flu]Don’t get me wrong… I’m as much against the entire robinhood wealth redistribution for many reasons. But perhaps for different reasons.
I agree that in a lot of causes, wealth is acquired as a result of some luck…But redistributing wealth randomly to others is a big problem in this country…
Because I think at least most definitely in this country, many many people have demonstrated that they can’t handle money even if someone gives it to them…In fact, quite the opposite…They end up getting deeper into debt because they end up figuring out a way to spend more than they have anyway.
A lot of the problems in our country has nothing to do with being born poor…I see a lot of people that are in their predicament because they spend too much, and they haven’t learned shit about the value of money..This is the only country that I find that you have folks in the poorest/lowest performing school districts…And they’re talking about having classrooms filled with iPads….CarmelV doesn’t even do that… This is the only country that I see in which folks who claim they are poor still carry around a smartphone with a $50/month bill….
I’m not rich, but definitely not poor…And I don’t even have a data plan for my personal cell phone because I think it’s too expensive…. (I have a data plan for a phone that is a complete work expense because it’s to test smartphone development…But even before I got involved in a smartphone development, I never had data plan or any)…..
In fact, I would say a majority of the people that just rail “on the rich” do so out of anger, jealousy than any other reason and like to come up with any excuse on why they think it’s “unfair”….But if you peel back the layers, I’m sure a lot of these people they’ve had their fair share of why their in the predicament that they are in…
It starts with education (at the anti-atitude toward it), it starts with spending values (the lack thereof), and it starts with learning to live with less (which clearly, americans suck at)… If someone in has demonstrated those things, and still are shit out of luck, then yeah I can understand….
But really, if I see someone that goofs off in school, someone that rails against geeks/nerds and pisses away opporunityy, someone that spends beyond their means for bling, some that “majors” in non-payable degree and on top of that takes out student loans up the ying yang to do so, and then cries foul about how unfair it is that others make more money…and talks about wealth redistribution, I can’t help roll my eyes.
A lot of people (in this country) fail out of laziness and self-pity and pride…versus because they failed after trying. I have tremendous respect for people in the latter category. I have no respect for people in the former category…And I think what people don’t understand is that most people in the latter category would seldomly be crying about how unfair things are.. More or less setback after setback they would keep trying….Those are the people that deserve “help”…not the former..
That’s the biggest issue why I’m against all this big talk about general wealth redistribution. A lot of folks don’t want to take a “good risk”, but a lot of folks make decisions out of bling that are dangerously risky…….
So when some folks see others take “good risk” (those to better oneself), they tell them what a bad idea it is, and how stupid they are…It happens all the time….And if those risk takers fail, “those” people are the first ones that love to rub their fingers at other people’s noses…And if the risk takers are lucky, and it works out…”those” people get all bent out of shape…they cry foul and unfair…Think that wealth accumulation through speculation should be taxed up the ying yang because it’s not “valued” as much as manual labor….Yeah, I have a problem with that.
I really don’t mind piss-ants that rail and tell me how stupid a decision is…..If fact, I think I kinda count on it……Because I’m already know piss-ants are going to rub their noses and tell me how dumb I am if things go bad…So I’m already use to it…I try my hardest to prove how dumb wrong they are.[/quote]
+1. My feeling exactly.
