You also assume everyone else with wealth just got lucky if you got rich that way
Tom Send a noteboard - 20/10/2017 07:01:55 PM
What's the old adage? You see the fruits of success, but not the 37 failures that went before it, or the struggles that accompanied it.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 20/10/2017 at 07:02:25 PM
Weinstein - I've long had this theory...
- 12/10/2017 03:31:11 PM
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I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad. *NM*
- 12/10/2017 03:42:18 PM
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Re: I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad.
- 12/10/2017 03:49:07 PM
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Just because he drugged and raped a 13 year old he doesn't deserve an Oscar?
- 12/10/2017 04:01:19 PM
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that is some wishfull thinking
- 12/10/2017 04:36:31 PM
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umm... sure.
- 12/10/2017 04:50:37 PM
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Not saying the are wrong to speak out but I alsoi hear there is corruption on Washington
- 12/10/2017 06:53:51 PM
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I love the Hillary outrage...like she didn't know. Weinstein's money is attractive. *NM*
- 12/10/2017 07:20:52 PM
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Look at Silicon Valley
- 12/10/2017 04:32:22 PM
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But what is the cause, and what is the effect?
- 12/10/2017 04:43:10 PM
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that is the problem with easy wealth. Deep down you know you just got lucky
- 12/10/2017 06:56:17 PM
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You also assume everyone else with wealth just got lucky if you got rich that way
- 20/10/2017 07:01:55 PM
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I've often thought of lot of their leftism/anti-capitalism is based on guilt.
- 12/10/2017 06:21:39 PM
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*NM*
You're pretty amazingly optimistic about how meritocratic capitalism is.
- 12/10/2017 07:18:38 PM
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wut?
- 12/10/2017 09:57:09 PM
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Hm. You're completely misunderstanding my post.
- 12/10/2017 11:09:11 PM
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the point you are misisng is the succes is selection process not a talent process
- 13/10/2017 02:22:04 PM
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I think you're making this up
- 13/10/2017 03:03:18 PM
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Uh, the two sentences from your post that I quoted?
- 13/10/2017 07:24:58 PM
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The two sentences you quoted don't say anything positive about capitalism
- 13/10/2017 08:12:49 PM
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What actual point would that be, then?
- 13/10/2017 11:55:56 PM
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People move to LA, scrape by on nearly nothing for years,
- 14/10/2017 12:17:00 AM
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Right. Yeah, I think we've both wasted more than enough of our time on this then. *NM*
- 14/10/2017 12:39:29 AM
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You're amazingly ignorant of what capitalism consists.
- 12/10/2017 11:15:51 PM
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absolutely
- 13/10/2017 05:09:40 PM
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Funnily enough, we seem to agree on most points. Here was me thinking I wrote in plain English... *NM*
- 13/10/2017 07:29:15 PM
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There seemed to be an implication that there's something wrong with it, or that more is expected *NM*
- 14/10/2017 06:08:59 AM
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Not even close. It is control environment where success is bestowed
- 13/10/2017 02:16:09 PM
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See, if it were communism, everybody working on a movie would get paid the same. 
- 13/10/2017 07:41:18 PM
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- 13/10/2017 07:41:18 PM
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