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Thread #164534   Message #3938529
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Jul-18 - 06:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Does money cause delusional thinking?
Subject: RE: BS: Does money cause delusional thinking?
"It is not totally unfair. Some are rich because they work harder than others, and don't squander their money, but invest it to make their position better.
Others don't work (either because they can't, or because they won't) and expect equality with those who do work."

This is classic Tory Party twaddle. The richest man in the world doesn't work any harder than the girl who works nights in an old people's home, cleaning up sick and urine, changing soiled bedsheets and giving bedbaths to people with advanced dementia. He may be better educated, have been shown the tricks of the trade in a public school, have been given lifts up in life and learned how to play the system, but he does not work harder than that girl. Not in a million years. And, it could be argued, he contributes less to society than she does. A lot less. As for squandering money, she'd tell you that chance would be a fine thing. There's always the pound shop and the food bank...

As for people expecting equality, etc., well I've known very many people on low pay or who couldn't get work, not through their own fault, but because there were no jobs or because they are disabled. I haven't met a single one who "expects equality," A few months in the real world would do people like you a power of good, Niggles.
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