Re: Not to be smug or anything, but...


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Alex W. wrote:

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Who decides when I have "enough"? You? The government? Talk about
reprehensible and "not beneficial to the individual, his family or his
society and country." You are advocating tyranny.


I don't really want to debate specific levels of wealth or income. What
concerns me is the general question when enough is enough.

it's easy enough to snip it right here.

enough is enough when the earner and owner of that wealth says to
him/herself that it's enough. the point at which they CHOOSE to give some
to others. a thug that takes your earnings to give to his homeboys is
known as a thief. to have the government do the same under color of
compassion is taxation. both are under duress and neither constitution
compassion.

So as a matter of personal conscience you do not find it offensive that one
man may work his *** off to earn minimum wage but across town, another man
earns so much he has to resort to buying differently-coloured Lamborghinis
for every dayof the week because he cannot think of anything else to spend
his cash on? It does not bother you that there are people to whom money has
become so meaningless?

Where do such people find the inspiration and encouragement to change a
lifelong paradigm, a cardinal virtue of today's society? Chances are their
local churches have no problem overlooking relevant Biblical passages (often
in exchange for suitable donations). The media adore and adulate wealth and
all its representatives, the more excessive and conspicuous the consumption
the better. Personal modesty and frugality in a wealthy person is ignored
or viewed as charming eccentricity rather than behaviour to be emulated.
Value and social standing are determined and ranked by their dollar value.
Given this pressure, where does a man turn who has made his pile if he wants
to find a yardstick by which to measure whether he really does have enough?



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