I am not suggesting that you are have-nots by any ordinary sense of the word, Amos. You have to consider the context in what I say. I'm suggesting that you are not multi-billionaires. If you were, you'd be dealing with a whole different deck of cards.

There's a point some people get to in life where no matter how much they have, it's never enough. They get caught up in the game...and the game is only about one thing: winning. You win by getting more. The more you get, the bigger the "win".

Therein lies the problem.

And, yes, I know that you get along fine with each other. I get along fine with DougR too...despite the fact that we disagree on almost everything when it comes to politics. ;-) I get along with him well because I respect him as a human being, and he knows that. I'm sure you and BB also respect each other as human beings, and that's all that's really needed to get along with other people (most of the time).

The real world is complex...yes. But society is run, ultimately, by one thing: money. He who can control the most money calls the shots. This is true in any marketplace, and in any world power structure. The most money buys whatever it wants to, hires as much firepower as it wants to, invades whom it wants to, passes what laws it wants to, controls what media outlets it wants to, runs which banks it wants to, and there's not a thing that you or I can do to stop that.

Specially if we don't even know who is giving the orders or where he lives.