I read everything and I am not scanning. I don’t go back and reference *edited* while I am posting though.
Honestly I see what you are saying, and oh btw I was raised conservative, maybe that is why I still have certain conservative ideals. Yes I would accept a check from the government, I used to care about “earning” it for myself, now I don’t give two *edited*s. Ask me what I would do with the money some time. Does that make me lazy, sure it does, anyone who says differently is a *edited*ing liar. I can’t believe you would sit there and tell me that you wouldn’t accept a check for that money. You see here is the difference you believe that you can apply yourself and gain anything, call me in 5 years or however long it takes you when you do that. I will look forward to that call, it isn’t that I doubt you, but in this economy at our current state of things, nobody is going anywhere, the people who hold the seats of power will continue to. Sure I am mad that I am not rich, I don’t want to “punish” anyone and I hardly think taking a few more dollars out of a 300 million dollar persons wallet is going to hurt them. Because at the end of the day they will still be rich. Yet at the end of my day I will just go farther into debt, is this my fault? No it isn’t. And *edited* you if you say it is. I didn’t make any decisions for our economy over the past 100 years, why do I have to suffer because of poor decisions? You will say oh everyone else is in the same position, yeah that is exactly my *edited*ing point.
I think that is the main point that I just really wish you would agree with me on, you see taxes are killing me, debt is killing me, and I know that like I said just 20k from a millionaire would be like a heaven send to me. I don’t dwell on that, sure I wish for it, but I just keep working day to day, paying off what I can. You related taxing of the wealthy to that you would send Animal Control to my house because I have a dog and you don’t like it, while I can see what you are saying in reality that is nothing like being taxed. Let’s make it realistic, I now have and own over 500,000 dogs, now send animal control and take 20 of them, think that is gonna matter to me? It wouldn’t, I would not care one *edited*ing bit. That is the reality of the situation. You’re example is of singular ownership, your example is much closer to what my family and poor people go through every time taxes come around. You got close to seeing how it is, but in your greedy nature you shined true for what you are, you are more worried about losing one thing. And also you related things of high importance, fiance, wife, dog, things that I personally would never want to give up to money, do you realize what kind of a person that makes you?
I am not hateful or resentful of rich people, get that out of your head right now, what I don’t understand is their greedy nature. OK so you earned all this money and you could set aside MORE THAN ENOUGH to cover you, your family, and at least a generation after that, and I bet even some for a rainy day. So what do you do with the rest of it? Oh you hoard it. Makes perfect sense.
One thing I know that I would do and *edited* you if you say I wouldn’t. I would invest most of my money into intelligent investments, keep a stash to the side that I never touch, for emergencies only. If I made the investments correctly I could live off of just the investments. Everything else I had would be focused into building more investments I would then give the investments to families in need, and tell them to pay it forward. Something like this most rich people could never do, it isn’t in them. They are worried about buying another house, yacht, jet, you name it. But if they did, the difference that it would make would be tremendous. They won’t though because it is a mentality thing, no one would like to see someone else rise to power beside them, well anyone that is surrounded by greed, thinks, breathes, and eats greed.
Rich people can’t see the forest for the money, we could live in a utopia, not everyone would be equal but people would not have to struggle every day just to get by. Pride and greed will kill our world before any other of the 7 sins even show their ugly heads. Thanks rich people, you keep it classy.
PS – I had an epiphany while I wrote this, there are things in life that people can do to gain a living and wealth, really having no limit on it, like your dad he became an entrepreneur and did well and became successful. My career that I want doesn’t involve entrepreneurship, in fact entrepreneurship is one of the few careers that allow you to control your salary, since your salary is everything you make minus expenses for your business. Honestly if you have a good idea it is the best way to go. I want to direct movies, guess what, I can’t do that starting out, I have to work my way through, and I am fine with that, unfortunately due to my current location I have very little freedom to do so. But guess what I could do if I had the money, direct, you see I could buy my own equipment pay my own staff and since I was rich I would have the pull to get into peoples pockets so they would want to sponsor the movie I was making. Once I made one if it did well enough I would be able to continue making movies, I honestly don’t care about being rich, what I do want is to not be tied down by the shackles of debt. That would give me the freedom to pursue my goals, and my debt looks to me like a mountain that I am terrified to climb, but to a rich person is a measly pebble in the road. That is what I think is lacking, I don’t want to hurt the guy making $500,000 per year I feel for him too, I am sure he is worried about making his next payment on his yacht, but I just wish that people could understand the differences that we go through.