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Luckily he never said any of that.
P.S. Bringing down the rich is exactly what you need to do to help the poor. History has shown that time and again, but I am quick to add it has also shown that the poor immediately go about creating new rich people and the problem starts again.
The solution is the removal of the rich entirely. My preferred method would be technology allowing for material wealth for everyone without the need for central approval or infrastructure, thus rendering the concept of material wealth moot, but that's off topic.
As it stands this quote list is little more than than the scolding of the poor to tolerate the rich, coupled with the promise that if they one day become rich they will be equally as worthy.
But the fact is, riches under any circumstance are not earned. Because both inheritance and opportunity are accident of birth.
Example: If Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and Warren buffet. Were all born women in sub-Saharan Africa, do you think they'd still be rich? No. Weather you are born with an apple tree in your yard, or the proceeds of two generations of apple sales, it still boils down to where you were born in both a geographic and economic sense.
Using the hopes of the poor to spread Horatio Alger mythology by misquoting one of the greatest champions of the poor our country has ever seen is loathsome, to put it mildly.
But hey selling false exploitative hope came natural to Mr Alger, being a divinity school trained pederast with a minister for a father.
I'm sorry for the rant if it offends, but I'm tried of the flip side of earned riches being ignored.
I am intelligent, skilled, compassionate, and hard working. Ask anyone who has ever worked with me. And I am tied of it being my fault that I'm poor.
P.P.S. Hard working does not mean stupid. Which is why I am not operating a burger machine professionally. Nor am I putting myself in constant climbing debt in the middle of a recession, and physical peril, by acquiring a car. Nor am I giving up my property at a time when the housing market makes home sale about as smart as dumping your 401k into the powerball.
Give me a job worth doing and I'll do it, but the sad fact is you have two choices when it comes to employment if you weren't born into luck. Either make money exploiting others, or break even while being exploited. I abstain.
P.S. Bringing down the rich is exactly what you need to do to help the poor. History has shown that time and again, but I am quick to add it has also shown that the poor immediately go about creating new rich people and the problem starts again.
The solution is the removal of the rich entirely. My preferred method would be technology allowing for material wealth for everyone without the need for central approval or infrastructure, thus rendering the concept of material wealth moot, but that's off topic.
As it stands this quote list is little more than than the scolding of the poor to tolerate the rich, coupled with the promise that if they one day become rich they will be equally as worthy.
But the fact is, riches under any circumstance are not earned. Because both inheritance and opportunity are accident of birth.
Example: If Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and Warren buffet. Were all born women in sub-Saharan Africa, do you think they'd still be rich? No. Weather you are born with an apple tree in your yard, or the proceeds of two generations of apple sales, it still boils down to where you were born in both a geographic and economic sense.
Using the hopes of the poor to spread Horatio Alger mythology by misquoting one of the greatest champions of the poor our country has ever seen is loathsome, to put it mildly.
But hey selling false exploitative hope came natural to Mr Alger, being a divinity school trained pederast with a minister for a father.
I'm sorry for the rant if it offends, but I'm tried of the flip side of earned riches being ignored.
I am intelligent, skilled, compassionate, and hard working. Ask anyone who has ever worked with me. And I am tied of it being my fault that I'm poor.
P.P.S. Hard working does not mean stupid. Which is why I am not operating a burger machine professionally. Nor am I putting myself in constant climbing debt in the middle of a recession, and physical peril, by acquiring a car. Nor am I giving up my property at a time when the housing market makes home sale about as smart as dumping your 401k into the powerball.
Give me a job worth doing and I'll do it, but the sad fact is you have two choices when it comes to employment if you weren't born into luck. Either make money exploiting others, or break even while being exploited. I abstain.
