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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear OP, don't you get it? They do not care. Not the UMC or the rich on dcum, nor the rich in the U.S. In most of the world rich and privileged don't care and don't want to care. It is in their best preservation interests to propagate a myth that they deserved it, earned it, and are worthy of having a lot of money.
And that the poor are to blame for their own poverty.
This is a story as old as the time.

If the rich took the time to learn about the abject poverty many Americans live in today, next to them, they might feel some emotional pang to help them if they know their neighbor's kids were starving and cold at night. (never on the same street though!) 
Suppose they found out that they have no money to fix the heat or even their range so they can cook.
But, that would mean they would have a tiny bit less money for their own kid's pony. So, they can't, because they convinced themselves that the poor person is just lazy, want welfare, only talks about taxing the rich, when they should be working, like they, the rich people did!
Right? Their kids are just as lazy as them, look at him in school, not even trying and where is his jacket? Can't even do his homework! Nothing but excuses, that they don't believe. The kid is lazy, it is not that he has no electricity or a laptop in his house!

But, if they learned that the poor person at the corner or a mom with a kid at the bus stop works 2, 3 jobs, works way more than the rich person does, and still can't pay for electricity, well, they would have to admit that something is wrong with the system that made them rich.
If they change the system, they might lose a few bucks, and that is not acceptable.
So, they close their eyes and pretend that they earned it and that the poor didn't earn it all of their own merits or the lack of it.
This is how dehumanizing works. Just like this thread showed you that you are treated as you are not all there, don't get it, do you want Mao to show up at your door, hey, aren't you still better off than in Stalin's gulag? They treat you like they treat other poor people, like they are dumb and to blame for your own "shortcomings."
IT IS YOUR FAULT! Not theirs. They will not get it even when "these" people are at their door and coming in with pitchfork for the 21st century, machines guns, no?
They will call them greedy and ungrateful and see nothing but flowers coming out of their own arses until their last breath. This is not new, this is not unique to the U.S, it has happened time and time again around the world.

Why do you even try here? If they were decent human beings that we're able to see that sharing some of their wealth, not all, not even a tiny portion of it, is a decent thing to do, we wouldn't be in this mess. 
If conglomerates invested back in their workforce and their communities, gave a smidgeon bigger salaries, and improved the buying power in their own markets, they would have 1 less Billion out of 50B?
If we had the government that did not just bail out banks and did not stipulate that they had to keep paying their workforce to receive the stimulus, well, we would be a decent society filled with decent human beings. But, the rich are not decent, not do they have empathy for anyone but themselves.
We do not live in that society. We live among the ugly Pariahs of UMC that dcum represents so much.
So, stop trying those that will not change until the pitchforks come. No society changed all that easily without some major event happening. We are not Norway. We are the brutal Wild West, where the biggest gun, not the hardest work, wins it all.[/quote]
This. This And this.

Btw -- if everyone "beneath" you who didn't make those "smart choices" and "worked hard" like you supposedly did - had made the "smart choices" and "worked hard" where would you be? There is only room for so many at cushy top jobs. 
And those who count marrying someone with an inheritance or a high paying job as why they're entitled to be better off than the lazy poor? Get a grip. You did nothing except be willing to sell yourself. You're not a superior individual. [/quote]
Thanks for taking me down a notch. I guess thinking that makes you feel better about yourself too.

What you're describing is charity. I give lots of money to charities for the less fortunate. But income and wealth disparities? That’s part luck, part work, and part smarts.[/quote]
Which you have none of. Apart from luck maybe. You are lacking in smarts so, so, so much. Nobody who is smart could even post this idiotic drivel.[/quote]

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