The New American Divide (15)
notavailablesomewhere, Bavaria Germany4 Threads 39 PostsInteresting article as to why the spread between the classes gets bigger..and why the rich loose grip on reality ( one part explains that quite well I think )
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577170733817181646.html?mod=lifestyle_newsreel
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notavailable: Interesting article as to why the spread between the classes gets bigger..and why the rich loose grip on reality ( one part explains that quite well I think )
Thanks for the link
I think the author is too idealistic and his article blames everything and everybody but God.
Still a nice read though.
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The divide is in the benefits provided by employers.
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WomniZer: Thanks for the link
I think the author is too idealistic and his article blames everything and everybody but God.
Still a nice read though.
I think the author is too idealistic and his article blames everything and everybody but God.
Still a nice read though.
I would not say he blames..just points out..but I think he forgot to include the difference between old and new money..but with the point he made that the current generations of the very well off, have no clue about "joe normal"..they live in a world detached from the rest..?
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notavailable: I would not say he blames..just points out..but I think he forgot to include the difference between old and new money..but with the point he made that the current generations of the very well off, have no clue about "joe normal"..they live in a world detached from the rest..?
It has and will always been so, that the rich were, are and will always be disconnected and detached from the rest of us, nothing new there.
Give me one example of an era where it wasn't so.
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WomniZer: It has and will always been so, that the rich were, are and will always be disconnected and detached from the rest of us, nothing new there.
Give me one example of an era where it wasn't so.
Give me one example of an era where it wasn't so.
I think you missing the point a bit..it used to be that rich dude A often enough used to know how normal dude B lived
nowadays rich dude A probably does not even know normal dude B exist because there is no more contact between the two
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The author points out the culture has eroded, thus dividing the country. I agree with his premise.
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mbcasey: The author points out the culture has eroded, thus dividing the country. I agree with his premise.
it also applies for here where I live..
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notavailable: it also applies for here where I live..
Tha's a shame. I think it has happened in most countries except the ones that never evolved out of cultural erosion...
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notavailable: I think you missing the point a bit..it used to be that rich dude A often enough used to know how normal dude B lived
nowadays rich dude A probably does not even know normal dude B exist because there is no more contact between the two
nowadays rich dude A probably does not even know normal dude B exist because there is no more contact between the two
Ah well, not the first point i miss and probably not the last.
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My wealthy clients have no idea how I live and they don't want to know.
All they want is the best service for the lowest price.
My wealthy extended family is penny pinching more then the poorest family members I have.
The wealthy cost me money...........!
All they want is the best service for the lowest price.
My wealthy extended family is penny pinching more then the poorest family members I have.
The wealthy cost me money...........!
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NAKEDMUDPEOPLE: My wealthy clients have no idea how I live and they don't want to know.
All they want is the best service for the lowest price.
My wealthy extended family is penny pinching more then the poorest family members I have.
The wealthy cost me money...........!
All they want is the best service for the lowest price.
My wealthy extended family is penny pinching more then the poorest family members I have.
The wealthy cost me money...........!
being taken advantage off..
well the rich did not become rich by spending their money..
scrooge comes to mind
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notavailable: being taken advantage off..
well the rich did not become rich by spending their money..
scrooge comes to mind
well the rich did not become rich by spending their money..
scrooge comes to mind
HOUSTON (Reuters) - No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183.
On Monday, the Texas financier heads to court in Houston to battle charges that he operated a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from Stanford International Bank Ltd, his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By all accounts, his was a life of luxury, filled with private jets, yachts, mansions and the sport of cricket.
Deemed a flight risk in June 2009 by a federal judge, the 6-foot billionaire has been in jail, sporting prison-issue green and orange jumpsuits and shackles instead of the dark, tailor-made suits he once ordered in bulk.
Stanford, a native Texan who was knighted by the government of Antigua in 2006, is accused of misleading investors about certificates of deposit (CDs) issued by his offshore bank, in one of the biggest white collar fraud cases since Bernard Madoff.
Talk about spending other people's money...
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