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04 Nov 2014, 8:16 pm

wittgenstein wrote:
True, there are self made men. Lone wolves if you will. However, we are a herd animal and lone wolves die.
Most so called "self made men" rely on the value that beta males create. They use their position (mostly inherented) to take. The richest people in the world simply bet on other's productivity and create nothing of value.
I find it humerous (and masochistic ) that some here applaud those that rip them off.

yes, I see them as what lenin called "useful idiots" or tools reminiscent of that pooch in the far side cartoon, a dog in his master's car for a ride, and he sticks his head out the window and yells triumphantly at his buddy pooch on the sidewalk, "I'M gonna go to the vets to get tutored."