Financial irresponsibility is probably not the only thing you want to look at here. Concentrations of wealth like this work to hugely distort politics, business, the legal system... It's pervasive.
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This has to be a troll post.
empty vessel
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Not to mention that janitors are more socially useful.
Edit: I should add, as a lawyer, janitors are more socially useful than what I do, too.
Black Mamba
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Poor, my ass!
Aaron Strife
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I'm really concerned that this isn't 100%.
Poor, my ass!
Seriously what diet can you subsist on without a refrigerator? Peanut butter sandwiches?
zero shift
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I think I"ll make a thread on this.
Salted meats. Seriously. Most of those.people probably live in rural locations where subsisyence hunting and farming is a possibility. I had a great aunt who lived in a farm jouse which never.got electrcity,and she had a meat lockerlikethat.
Black Mamba
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Probably is now because of all the Obamaraters given out.
Sounds good. Post the link here please.
empty vessel
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I have a cousin that did repossessions in East Texas. He was not well off himself (to put it politely), and certainly not a liberal. He was nevertheless at a loss for words about some of the impoverished conditions he saw (black) people living in. They were part of the .4% that didn't have fridges.
RustyNails
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You are not poor unless you look like an Irish immigrant family during the great depression.
That's not poor. They had hats! Head coverings aren't essentials, and certainty not promised by the constitution.
I don't think it's worth it. You've created a fictional scenario where the bottom tier only has to cut beer money to live well.
speculawyer
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Yeah, my Trader Joe's PB won't last without a fridge. And I'm not going back to eating corn syrup infested shit.
zero shift
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The Autumn Wind
I refuse to contribute to that joke of a thread, but how old are you? You're seriously underestimating monthly costs and leaving quite a few necessary costs out.
Black Mamba
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My recollection of zero shift in this thread has been positive, so that thread is so confusing.
jamesinclair
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Damn, a lot of poligaf bans this week. I forsee one more.
empty vessel
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He has said he was a socialist. But I always had my doubts. And now I'm pretty sure we have an answer.
This has been such a weird week that way. First Karma Kramer turned out to be a Benghazier when he always claimed to be Green, and now zero shift is a Randian. Is Kosmo travelling around the country locking posters up in a room with Fox News until they turn insane?
Black Mamba
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could be Poe's law. I can't fucking tell anymore...
Black Mamba
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I'm going to make a new thread titled "Why do rich people have it so good?"
Why aren't the rich even more rich? What's a millionaire's excuse for not being a billionaire?
Wow dude, just wow.
empty vessel
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I don't think so. I've been suspicious since his first posts here, and we had an exchange. I could link to it but I'm lazy.
That's probably why you're poor.
StopMakingSense
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Mmhmmm.
empty vessel
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Goddamnit. I already admitted to being a social parasite in this thread.
I didn't know that you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Black Mamba
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pretty sure he's trolling now. Had me going for a while. Not bad.
Eh. I think real trolling requires a little bit more care than just going Sean Hannity all of a sudden.
empty vessel
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Not to mention that what started this all off was an apparently sincere post in here asking for thoughts about a stupid Fox News infographic. I think he was thoroughly confused.
Black Mamba
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Poor Zero
jamesinclair
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And there it goes.
Yeah pretty weird.
This post doesn't really fit in with his new thread.
If he's not trolling I'm guessing he either advanced into the middle class/comfortable financial situation recently or he read enough about lower caste peons working in horrible conditions in other countries and decided that the US poor no longer look legitimate.
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thepotatoman
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Why does it seem like it's only republicans that fall for such things. I mean sure I've seen tons of democrats fall for Fox News style double standards, deflection, out of context quotes and facts, and general spin, but I've never personally seen them fall for ridiculous stories made up from absolutely nothing while I've personally seen plenty of republican family members spread this kind of crap around.
It's no wonder Republican voters are beginning to think Republican politicians and Fox News are too far left if they are believing crap even Bachmann and Coulter would be embarrassed to repeat.
Brawndo Addict
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Just wanted to drop in to double suspicion over whether Zero Shift was actually sincere. I don't see blatantly lying and acting with a fake persona as "trolling", that's just fraudulent behavior. Perhaps he was just bored and acting to get a rise out of people who mistakenly believed he was posting in good faith. Pretty gross behavior, but if he posted in this thread honestly then I'm not so sure what he was doing.
The long con perhaps? Didn't want people in this thread to call him out on his lie immediately so he had to set up a phony belief first? I dunno.
What's wrong with this claim?
The long con perhaps? Didn't want people in this thread to call him out on his lie immediately so he had to set up a phony belief first? I dunno.
jamesinclair
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Maybe hes an xbox fanboy scared shitless about tomorrow morning?
Muslins, Illegals, drugs...all we need are single, black welfare mothers getting a piece of this somehow and we've pretty much covered everything.
ClassyPenguin
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I think this banning trend is just the beginning of the 1000 Years of Darkness.
Thanks Obama.
Thanks Obama.
StopMakingSense
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Mods have disproportionally targeted conservative posters for banning. Bish has been promoted to run Obamacare.
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