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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (622578)8/2/2011 9:29:56 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1582957
 
Money doesn't hold the same mystique for me as it seems to hold for you all.

It doesn't hold a huge mystique for me, I just don't feel hurt or very envious because other people have more of it. Someone else makes a fortune... In direct terms that is a net plus, the world is better off, even if its just one person being better off. Sure if he stole it (either outright illegal theft or extortion, or rent seeking using the government to give him the money, or a monopoly etc.), then it harms others, but someone is more likely to get rich by creating a net benefit. (Although as government grows, rent seeking grows relative to real wealth creation as a source of high incomes.)

Your disgust, even if it has some other source then envy, is an unreasonable and unproductive emotion.
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