Re: Latest News

From: Rich The Philosophizer (null_at_example.net)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:49:11 GMT

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:31:54 +0000, R. Steve Walz wrote:

> Tom Seim wrote:
>>
>> "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message news:<41A04596.7677@armory.com>...
>> > 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?
>> > ----------------
>> > You mean like with ten thousand rooms? If they don't have any and he
>> > made them build it and then made them live there and pay rent?
>> > Betcher fuckin' ass!
>> >
>> > -Steve
>>
>> Ten thousand rooms? Have you ever seen such a house? If such a thing,
>> were it to exist, would be out of the price range of a millionaire.
> -----------------------
> Even so, we're talking about mass deprivation. My analogy is accurate.
> Don't be an ass who takes metaphor serioiusly to dodge the argument.

So, when do you plan to heal your own denials, which are, after all, the
cause of your victims' plight?

Inquiring minds want to know.
Rich