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29 Nov 2011, 2:00 am

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People think that a large bank account will buy them security but if everyone helped one another out you would not need to hoard a fortune.

That would be called socialism. Unfortunately, true socialism has never existed because some humans crave power.
In a capitalist society the government does not want to help the people. They want money and power. They want to control and brainwash you with ideas like freedom of speech. In America we don't really have freedom of speech. It is illegal to burn the flag which is a sheet of cloth that means nothing to me.
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29 Nov 2011, 2:03 am

The economic system in my country makes me want to kill myself honestly.


Uhh f*ck all them I just wanna learn to make my own f*****g beer............and grow my own weed, because f**k the feds.


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29 Nov 2011, 5:15 am

People with small bank accounts have the same rights a people with large bank accounts. However there is some advantage to having a large bank account if one's rights are under attack and need to be defended.

One does not need a bank account to vote, for example. On the old days, one needed to be a property owner to vote. That has changed. The vote of a penniless person counts as much as the vote of a rich person in a legal election.

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29 Nov 2011, 5:23 am

^^^
tea partiers like tom tancredo would take that away, resurrecting the old prohibitive poll taxes and property owning requirements for voting rights. the bastard. :x one of the last things margaret thatcher did was to bring back that mess, but this riled so many folk that she found herself out of office soon afterward. couldn't have happened to a nicer witch. :lol:



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29 Nov 2011, 5:26 am

auntblabby wrote:
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tea partiers like tom tancredo would take that away, resurrecting the old prohibitive poll taxes and property owning requirements for voting rights. the bastard. :x one of the last things margaret thatcher did was to bring back that mess, but this riled so many folk that she found herself out of office soon afterward. couldn't have happened to a nicer witch. :lol:


That would be unlikely. Poll tax is not constitutional. 24 th amendment.

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29 Nov 2011, 7:48 am

ruveyn wrote:
People with small bank accounts have the same rights a people with large bank accounts. However there is some advantage to having a large bank account if one's rights are under attack and need to be defended.

One does not need a bank account to vote, for example. On the old days, one needed to be a property owner to vote. That has changed. The vote of a penniless person counts as much as the vote of a rich person in a legal election.

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Well except those with a larger bank account can simply buy the politicians.


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29 Nov 2011, 7:53 am

a truly cagey pol knows that he can play rich and poor off against one another, by promising to protect each from the other [extracting votes from the many poor and $$$ from the few rich in the process].



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29 Nov 2011, 8:44 am

Dark_Lord_2008 wrote:
According to the shallow Capitalist society we live in people's value is solely determined by the bank account/personal wealth.
It does not matter if you earn, inherit, win or steal the money to inflate your bank account and asset values.

Politicians, media, corporations and people that make up society continuously push the importance of having a large bank account balance and a huge personal fortune. We have all been brainwashed with Capitalism and the huge importance of becoming a millionaire or billionaire to achieve financial security.

How you accumulate your personal wealth, assets and bank account balance does not matter at all. Society appreciates the success and looks up to wealthy people and looks down and deplores homeless and poor people.


Ok, first of all, don't assume everybody live in the same country you do.

I'm not a huge fan of capitalism, but you seem to have a rather romantic idea of what other societies (which you don't seem to know anything about) are like.

And to answer your question: no, I don't think your status or value depends on your bank account.



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29 Nov 2011, 2:35 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
Dark_Lord_2008 wrote:
According to the shallow Capitalist society we live in people's value is solely determined by the bank account/personal wealth.
It does not matter if you earn, inherit, win or steal the money to inflate your bank account and asset values.

Politicians, media, corporations and people that make up society continuously push the importance of having a large bank account balance and a huge personal fortune. We have all been brainwashed with Capitalism and the huge importance of becoming a millionaire or billionaire to achieve financial security.

How you accumulate your personal wealth, assets and bank account balance does not matter at all. Society appreciates the success and looks up to wealthy people and looks down and deplores homeless and poor people.


Yeah that is one of the major reasons why I hate this society, I was born into.


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29 Nov 2011, 2:51 pm

Dark_Lord_2008 wrote:
According to the shallow Capitalist society we live in people's value is solely determined by the bank account/personal wealth.
Oh, I like to think that stocks, noble heritage, expected inheritance and land figure in. I think it also helps to be charming, good-looking, smart, talented...sigh. I love me.

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Society appreciates the success and looks up to wealthy people and looks down and deplores homeless and poor people.
Which society are we talking about again? If any class is over-esteemed, it's the "middle class." People talk about "the rich" as if "the rich" are somehow inherently evil. There are rich as*holes out there, but they are as*holes because they are as*holes, not as*holes because they rich. Having greater capacity for causing harm doesn't make them bigger as*holes, just bigger problems.