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that is the problem with easy wealth. Deep down you know you just got lucky random thoughts Send a noteboard - 12/10/2017 06:56:17 PM

That is the reason the software billionaires tend to be liberal. If you have to build it brick by brick on thin margins you have a different attitude.

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Weinstein - I've long had this theory... aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 03:31:11 PM 983 Views
I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad. *NM* random thoughts - 12/10/2017 03:42:18 PM 276 Views
Re: I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad. random thoughts - 12/10/2017 03:49:07 PM 498 Views
Just because he drugged and raped a 13 year old he doesn't deserve an Oscar? aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 04:01:19 PM 555 Views
that is some wishfull thinking random thoughts - 12/10/2017 04:36:31 PM 538 Views
umm... sure. aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 04:50:37 PM 481 Views
Not saying the are wrong to speak out but I alsoi hear there is corruption on Washington random thoughts - 12/10/2017 06:53:51 PM 528 Views
I think she has to be very careful aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 03:53:00 PM 500 Views
Replied in wrong place. *NM* LiterateDog - 12/10/2017 06:20:38 PM 256 Views
I love the Hillary outrage...like she didn't know. Weinstein's money is attractive. *NM* Jeordam - 12/10/2017 07:20:52 PM 278 Views
Look at Silicon Valley Tom - 12/10/2017 04:32:22 PM 505 Views
But what is the cause, and what is the effect? aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 04:43:10 PM 553 Views
I think it's a lot more complicated Tom - 12/10/2017 06:43:56 PM 585 Views
I think we agree it's complicated aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 07:07:08 PM 534 Views
that is the problem with easy wealth. Deep down you know you just got lucky random thoughts - 12/10/2017 06:56:17 PM 545 Views
You also assume everyone else with wealth just got lucky if you got rich that way Tom - 20/10/2017 07:01:55 PM 466 Views
I've often thought of lot of their leftism/anti-capitalism is based on guilt. LiterateDog - 12/10/2017 06:21:39 PM 566 Views
Weinstein was a virtue signaller aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 06:59:13 PM 547 Views
The music industry is just as bad random thoughts - 12/10/2017 06:59:34 PM 558 Views
Really it is worse, much much worse. HyogaRott - 20/10/2017 05:55:15 PM 502 Views
Seems to me there's a rather more obvious explanation. Legolas - 12/10/2017 07:33:58 PM 628 Views
I prefer the artsie all emotion no reasoning explanation *NM* random thoughts - 13/10/2017 02:09:45 PM 280 Views
You're pretty amazingly optimistic about how meritocratic capitalism is. Legolas - 12/10/2017 07:18:38 PM 496 Views
wut? aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 09:57:09 PM 529 Views
Movies are similar to start-ups AgentApple - 12/10/2017 10:26:05 PM 536 Views
A question for the ages that has an answer: aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 03:09:29 PM 536 Views
Hm. You're completely misunderstanding my post. Legolas - 12/10/2017 11:09:11 PM 552 Views
the point you are misisng is the succes is selection process not a talent process random thoughts - 13/10/2017 02:22:04 PM 509 Views
I think you're making this up aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 03:03:18 PM 514 Views
Uh, the two sentences from your post that I quoted? Legolas - 13/10/2017 07:24:58 PM 554 Views
The two sentences you quoted don't say anything positive about capitalism aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 08:12:49 PM 480 Views
What actual point would that be, then? Legolas - 13/10/2017 11:55:56 PM 525 Views
People move to LA, scrape by on nearly nothing for years, aerocontrols - 14/10/2017 12:17:00 AM 565 Views
Right. Yeah, I think we've both wasted more than enough of our time on this then. *NM* Legolas - 14/10/2017 12:39:29 AM 234 Views
You're amazingly ignorant of what capitalism consists. Cannoli - 12/10/2017 11:15:51 PM 613 Views
absolutely damookster - 13/10/2017 05:09:40 PM 643 Views
Isn't that likely the future of teaching? aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 05:43:15 PM 628 Views
Could be damookster - 13/10/2017 06:05:42 PM 580 Views
Funnily enough, we seem to agree on most points. Here was me thinking I wrote in plain English... *NM* Legolas - 13/10/2017 07:29:15 PM 276 Views
There seemed to be an implication that there's something wrong with it, or that more is expected *NM* Cannoli - 14/10/2017 06:08:59 AM 280 Views
Not even close. It is control environment where success is bestowed random thoughts - 13/10/2017 02:16:09 PM 670 Views
See, if it were communism, everybody working on a movie would get paid the same. Legolas - 13/10/2017 07:41:18 PM 612 Views
are talked communism in theory or practice? random thoughts - 17/10/2017 03:36:59 AM 565 Views
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