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From: Pig Bladder (pig_bladder_at_anyspammer.org)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:45 GMT

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:00:45 -0800, Tom Seim wrote:

> Rich The Philosophizer <null@example.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.20.02.01.44.925063@neodruid.org>...
>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:08:20 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:15:24 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
>> [rich vs. poor stuff]
>> >
>> > But spending isn't primarily what rich people do. Poor people think
>> > about all the things they would buy if they were rich. But the essence
>> > of being rich is *not* spending. A billionaire may have three houses
>> > and ten cars, but not 3000 houses and 10,000 cars.
>>
>> Well, yeah, but here's the thing. To the guy who has no hope of
>> ever having even one house that he can ever call his own, that
>> second or third house that the billionaire just conjures up
>> with a flip of his wrist really, really rankles.
>
> Would they also be pissed off at a millionaire that owns only one
> (really nice) house?

It's not a de facto sort of thing. It doesn't go by rules and numbers.

The question is, how do you _feel_ about the guy having a house? 

-- 
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