Pilotboy, you canât reason with Trader666. He is insistent on tearing down the little guy and belittling everything they do. In high school, Iâm sure he was the one picking on all the geeks. You, like I, are seeing a world that is falling apart and becoming a screw or be screwed economy. His solution is to simply become the screwer, not to fix any problems.Quote from Pilotboy:
Yeah, wake up stupid, look around, "if you are not outraged you are not paying attention." Why would you assume I am not successful? I am a cargo pilot for a large private company and I am 33 years old, hence the username. What is your profession? Our country is broken and I care about it so I am pointing out a major problem.
Income distribution is a real problem. And it has nothing to do with hard work or skills, it is about connections and corruption. And throughout the history of the world it only ends in one way. A big War. www.lcurve.org
So maybe I should change my thinking and start listening to successful people. Who do you reccomend? Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, George Bush, Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Angelo Mozillo, Charles Prince, Alan Greenspan, Tim Geithner??? Any other completely incompetent successful people you could reccomend?
I will think for myself and I just happen to agree with these self made successful people; Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Jim Rogers, George Soros, Warren Buffet.
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Here's another part of the problem... of course this applies in varying degrees to different individuals but there are some wide ranging trends.
The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117702894815776259.html
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Here's another part of the problem... of course this applies in varying degrees to different individuals but there are some wide ranging trends.
The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117702894815776259.html
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BTW, Iâd question some of those names on your list. I donât think Buffett and Gates are quite the saints we think they are, especially Buffett. I keep hearing about ways heâs screwed people. And while you may not agree with Hilaryâs and Pelosiâs politics, they have accomplished a great deal in the political world. You can bash Greenscam and Bernankrupt all you want, they deserve it.
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But this applies to the future, not the past few decades the thread is about.