Always used to like the wiz, but am coming to see him as one of the 1% elitists who has a technology which he does not share with the 99%, of which his neighbor is in that number.His manner in regarding his neighbor’s labor seems to say: “Let ’em eat cake”.The more things change, the more they stay the same.
@Dale NethertonShare your opinion. The operation of natural environmental processes will take care of the problem eventually.Problem solved. Time for a beer.Heineken’s, please.
@gmartin997@goweederWill agree that the example set by the guy with the bulldozers and earth movers may be the case with likely less than 1% of the 1%. goweeder has a point that in the majority of cases the situation is largely as he described. The 1% don’t want anyone else benefitting from their great pile of money. (Stays in the family).Seems the 1%’s main goal in life is to acquire more wealth than 100 people could possibly throw away in a lifetime and to insure that the 99% never get any part of the abundance their labor has helped create.And then to avoid taxes so no one else could possibly benefit from their wealth by stashing money in Swiss bank accounts and accounts in the Cayman Islands, all the while funding lobbyists to get laws passed favoring them,making campaign “contributions” to fund the finest politicians money can buy, etc.,etc.(Mitt happens!).
GM: Your analogy doesn’t work since the 1% own the shovels or the men who make the rukles on how they are used. Notice how the crash took out real estate and the upper crust already had rules in place in finance and the stock market that limited the wealth you could make there. They long since violated the patent laws to steal inventions. Sorry, your pure capitalist dream only works when the rich don’t horde and suppress.
hsawlrae over 12 years ago
Somebody deeps doing that to me year ’round.
Llewellenbruce over 12 years ago
The Wiz doesn’t need a leaf blower.
Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
So the Wiz lives in a poor part of town?
Hillbillyman over 12 years ago
The Wizs lives next door to a pauper? That’s odd.
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 12 years ago
That should have been, “Showoffus.”
tigre1 over 12 years ago
Remember? Any highly developed technology looks like magic to the uninitiated…
Tuner38 over 12 years ago
Why do you think they are called “leaves”? Leave em.
stripseeker over 12 years ago
@Ron@gmartin997@tigre1@pathfindercec
Always used to like the wiz, but am coming to see him as one of the 1% elitists who has a technology which he does not share with the 99%, of which his neighbor is in that number.His manner in regarding his neighbor’s labor seems to say: “Let ’em eat cake”.The more things change, the more they stay the same.
stripseeker over 12 years ago
@Dale NethertonShare your opinion. The operation of natural environmental processes will take care of the problem eventually.Problem solved. Time for a beer.Heineken’s, please.
goweeder over 12 years ago
@gmartin997
Most 99 percenters don’t own a ship, and their daddies didn’t buy one for them.
stripseeker over 12 years ago
@gmartin997@goweederWill agree that the example set by the guy with the bulldozers and earth movers may be the case with likely less than 1% of the 1%. goweeder has a point that in the majority of cases the situation is largely as he described. The 1% don’t want anyone else benefitting from their great pile of money. (Stays in the family).Seems the 1%’s main goal in life is to acquire more wealth than 100 people could possibly throw away in a lifetime and to insure that the 99% never get any part of the abundance their labor has helped create.And then to avoid taxes so no one else could possibly benefit from their wealth by stashing money in Swiss bank accounts and accounts in the Cayman Islands, all the while funding lobbyists to get laws passed favoring them,making campaign “contributions” to fund the finest politicians money can buy, etc.,etc.(Mitt happens!).
stripseeker over 12 years ago
The 99% begin to feel like those in steerage on the Titanic, and decide to jump ship. Goodbye, good ship Capitalism.Ahoy, mates!
freeholder1 over 12 years ago
GM: Your analogy doesn’t work since the 1% own the shovels or the men who make the rukles on how they are used. Notice how the crash took out real estate and the upper crust already had rules in place in finance and the stock market that limited the wealth you could make there. They long since violated the patent laws to steal inventions. Sorry, your pure capitalist dream only works when the rich don’t horde and suppress.