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To: sm1th who wrote (7718)	1/29/2012 2:52:12 PM
From: Bearcatbob	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

sm1th, Clearly in our zero sum society your success came from taking from another. Repent!

To: sm1th who wrote (7718)	1/29/2012 5:16:15 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

We all worked hard. I am 70 and still working 6 days a week because my first priority was my childrens education and it was expensive. But my kids thank me all the time for making it possible. Neither kid had to work in college, so they could study instead which is what I wanted. And thinking one needs motivation by being poor is nuts. Research shows that most poor stay poor and most rich stay rich! The rich can afford to send their kids to the best pre schools and best colleges, or put them in a an exensive college where they don't have to have grades or work hard, but get a degree. do you really think bush got into Yale and Harvard on his grades! His entire family had been in skull and bones and they take care of their own i.e. no grades needed! The rich can buy them new cars and pay for all their costs. They are able to give their kids a financial start or hook them up with good employment. Like most poor, I had to pay for my entire college, but I often worked all night and went straight to class. That is a big disadvantage. Rich kids don't have to do that. Nor did my kids. But poor kids still have to. Thinking inequality is good, is exactly what the rich want the poor to think. <<Income inequality is the most desirable economic charactistic of a healthy social structure. It provides the motivation for all to strive for better. Without inequality, everyone would be poor. As long as individuals have the opportunity to move up the ladder inequality is good. Over the past 35 years, I have moved from the bottom qtr to the top 5%. In retirement, I will move back down somewhat. I did it the old fashioned way, hard work, self-improvement and delayed gratification to build up capital.