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Okay so my wife and I always have this argument about the super rich. She says Bill Gates (just to give a specific example) is, like, a really good guy because of the charity work he does and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or whatever. I say no, Bill Gates does those things not because he is a good person, but to assuage his guilt about having so much money. Its not about the people he is helping, its more about the amount of people he could be helping but chooses not to due to selfishness and greed(which is something all wealthy people are afflicted with). The Life Preserver Analogy goes like this: Life is a boat trip. The Super rich are cruising around in mega-yachts equipped with life boats and tons of life preservers. and uhhhhh.. the life preservers are like money. okay. Then there are the poors which are represented by people with no boat, they are just scattered around treading water as long as they can to avoid the inevitable. Basically I'm a rich guy and I have 100 life preservers and lets say 300 people are treading water near my boat. I either have a little empathy for some of them, or just want some karma cred or whatever my motivation and I throw out 12 life preservers, saving 12 people from their dire situation. I still have nearly all my life preservers (which i do nothing with by the way, i just like having them). So the question is, am I a hero or a selfish monster? It really makes you think. yeah
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suck his dick
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Aug 22, 2016 22:22
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please understand that if i ever get rich for some reason, i aint helping anyone. i might donate to no-kill animal shelters but thats about it. people are terrible.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:22
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JiveHonky posted:please understand that if i ever get rich for some reason, i aint helping anyone. i might donate to no-kill animal shelters but thats about it. people are terrible. gently caress him in the rear end in a top hat
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Aug 22, 2016 22:22
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just ray posted:suck his dick so in your example the rich person is a "suck" and the "dick" is poor people or is it reversed
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Aug 22, 2016 22:23
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I use all of my money on food and stuff I like.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:23
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just ray posted:gently caress him in the rear end in a top hat what you are suggestiong is economic suicide which there are rules against
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Aug 22, 2016 22:24
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What's it take to be rich in Idaho, like $30,000?
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Aug 22, 2016 22:24
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lick his vagina
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Aug 22, 2016 22:24
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JiveHonky posted:please understand that if i ever get rich for some reason, i aint helping anyone. i might donate to no-kill animal shelters but thats about it. people are terrible. would you help me with a month's rent if i needed it? i'm not saying that i do, or that i will. just asking to gauge your receptiveness to helping me.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:25
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OctoberBlues posted:What's it take to be rich in Idaho, like $30,000? i nvested heavily in potatoe futures and now i own my own Jamba Juice store
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Aug 22, 2016 22:25
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OctoberBlues posted:What's it take to be rich in Idaho, like $30,000? ID is a playground for billionaires, but everywhere has its trailer parks
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Aug 22, 2016 22:26
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scott zoloft posted:would you help me with a month's rent if i needed it? i'm not saying that i do, or that i will. just asking to gauge your receptiveness to helping me. yes, only because you are not technically people
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Aug 22, 2016 22:26
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Bill gates has enough money to give everyone on the planet $5 and will still have $54 billion left over.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:34
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Bill Gates has enough money to give me $78 billion but he chooses not to. Truly an immoral man.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:36
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JiveHonky posted:i nvested heavily in potatoe futures and now i own my own Jamba Juice store I'm happy for you jh, glad you're no longer living in denial. 
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Aug 22, 2016 22:37
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Those sure are a lot of words OP
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Aug 22, 2016 22:38
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suckle upon his balls
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Aug 22, 2016 22:39
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i emailed this thread to bill gates
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Aug 22, 2016 22:41
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I wish someone would give me money. 
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Aug 22, 2016 22:41
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Kuato posted:I wish someone would give me money. I can give you about tree fiddy
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Aug 22, 2016 22:43
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The way I figure it, if you give the life preservers to people now, what happens when there are people later who need the life preservers even more? I would only give life preservers to the people who couldn't swim and I would hold on to the rest and invest them, and make more life preservers, and that way it would be possible to save even more people. I would endow a fund with life preservers and use the interest ever year to give people the life preservers they need to start their own boats where they can make their own life preservers.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:44
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OctoberBlues posted:I'm happy for you jh, glad you're no longer living in denial. de nile dont go through idaho (winks)
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Aug 22, 2016 22:45
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I play a millionaire at parties. At least, I'd like to.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:46
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amityville anus posted:I play a millionaire at parties. I do this at bars, when I talk to women.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:46
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misty mountaintop posted:The way I figure it, if you give the life preservers to people now, what happens when there are people later who need the life preservers even more? I would only give life preservers to the people who couldn't swim and I would hold on to the rest and invest them, and make more life preservers, and that way it would be possible to save even more people. I would endow a fund with life preservers and use the interest ever year to give people the life preservers they need to start their own boats where they can make their own life preservers. poors is poors. i woul probably sort out the poors who have young ones first though. they have the moistest flesh
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Aug 22, 2016 22:47
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you gonna lick his hole op?
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Aug 22, 2016 22:48
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The very system of modern consumerism that allows billionaires to do this charity is the system that helps produce and maintain the inequality and poverty that makes charity required. aside from like natural disaster stuff ofc, no revolution is going to stop hurricanes hitting things
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Aug 22, 2016 22:49
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Moridin920 posted:The very system of modern consumerism that allows billionaires to do this charity is the system that helps produce and maintain the inequality and poverty that makes charity required. What about windmills?
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Aug 22, 2016 22:50
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VendaGoat posted:What about windmills? imo just look at where that got the Dutch
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misty mountaintop posted:The way I figure it, if you give the life preservers to people now, what happens when there are people later who need the life preservers even more? I would only give life preservers to the people who couldn't swim and I would hold on to the rest and invest them, and make more life preservers, and that way it would be possible to save even more people. I would endow a fund with life preservers and use the interest ever year to give people the life preservers they need to start their own boats where they can make their own life preservers. so pretty much what bill gates did
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Aug 22, 2016 22:51
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Moridin920 posted:imo just look at where that got the Dutch Don Quixote?
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Aug 22, 2016 22:53
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yeah but is bill gates good or bad?
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VendaGoat posted:Don Quixote? buncha waffle eaters running around with black paint on their faces
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