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To: Metacomet who wrote (88478)	3/27/2012 11:21:36 AM
From: bart13	4 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217844

The 'evil' folk in the 1% have 1000s of times broader effects than the 'evil' 99%ers, and the 1%ers effects are much more difficult to avoid or stop etc. - and MQ avoids that, as well as frequently dodges inconvenient questions (like who owns him).

To: Metacomet who wrote (88478)	3/27/2012 2:47:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Respond to of 217844

Having had considerable experience of both, my opinion is that you are wrong: < There is however a much higher percentage of evil doers and outright assholes in the 1% > You are right though that it would be easy get a quorum of outright nasty types. One of the fundamental facts about money is that if you don't have it, you can't lose it, so you don't have to worry too much about doing so and one's behaviour is not circumscribed by the risk of losing it. People with loads carry the constant worry of protecting it, which means not doing things which would put it at risk. That means maintaining higher standards of behaviour than might otherwise be the case. Unfortunately, the money itself enables some bad behaviour such as lording it over waitresses and generally behaving in a less than pleasant way. From my own experience, people seem to just carry on from when they were about 12 with their basic personality and having or not having money doesn't change that much at all. If they are decent people when twelve, they are likely to remain so over the decades. Your belief that the proportion is higher in the wealthy is, I believe, based on envy rather than facts. You see some undesirable individuals, and attribute their character to the group because of your antipathy to the group. That's called racism in another context. You have to watch out for racism. You can find it sneaking up on you in all sorts of ways. Mqurice