08-31-2016, 08:20 AM
(08-31-2016, 06:19 AM)gstanford Wrote:Rollo Wrote:I get mutual funds and other financial conglomerates exert influence, but even that is not all "bad". The people administering the funds have "good jobs", are "tax paying citizens that help fuel the economy". The investors in the funds profit along with them, this is what a modern day "pension" is. You invest your money along the way and hope to build up a million or two to supplement your Social Security. The funds investments help companies survive or grow, and in turn provide good jobs for other tax paying citizens.
It's not all just Bill Gates and Warren Buffet saying, "Meh, I want to make a few billion today and maybe buy Puerto Rico. Send a memo to that Bresch peon to hike the price of Epipens 500%!".
While corporatism on it's face may seem unequivocally ominous and evil, it "is" the game now as far as I can tell.
So I can try to position myself and my family to prosper within the game, or I can post,"Nuh uh. The revolution is a comin'! Someday soon we're all going to be CEOs and enjoying the bounty this land has to offer!".
I'm not going to do the latter for the same reason I don't live in an opium den. I don't like losing either, and maximize my enjoyment of life wherever and whenever possible.
What you are actually saying is you are every bit as greedy as the rich bastards and you don't care who you trample in life or how they are left to cope so long as you personally are ok....
Pretty good definition of a bastard IMO and definitely somebody the world is better off without.
"People who seem to have more money than me must die! Attack gorillas! Attack!"
-GCeasar, Livin' the dream