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I don't think many people realize how hard it is to move up. I remember reading about a journalist who worked the floor at Walmart. She did not let them know her true credentials and figured she could move up. She was surprised she did not.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM
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Thank you guys/gals for the interest you generated in this post. I try to give you the facts (not a popular vocation for many) so you can assemble your world-view! Truth does give you light on the next 'footstep'!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 10, 2009 at 11:16 PM
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you're right the rich always get richer ,,,Happy Easter to you too
posted by
shobana
on April 10, 2009 at 10:01 PM
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soul you got a bad habit of telling the truth. Or at least some people would have you believe it is a bad habit.
posted by
RITE2SPIN
on April 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM
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When the poor masses need to focus all their energies on basic survival it is difficult to see a change evolving in the status quo! Indeed the wealthy control the playing field ,sad but true. We all have inner power to affect change with concentrated thought and focus.This requires caring for all not just ourselves. Awaken in the peaceful revolution! We are one people.
posted by
merkie
on April 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM
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Re: spiderfly
If you have not made it (at least) into the top 10%, you are not wealthy and don't have politician friends who manipulate the system for your benefit.Though you might be rich for me, you are not what I mean by 'rich'! So, enjoy your life, if that is the journey ahead.
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM
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Stimulating post and comments
posted by
malcolm
on April 10, 2009 at 8:37 AM
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I think wealth itself is not the problem so much
as the entire monetary system, which is designed to put power in the hands of a small number of people at the expense of the masses. Not all rich people are bad - many spend most of their time doing enourmous good in charity work, although others seek only to amass their own wealth.
Conversley most of the poor are honest, hard working people doing their best, and yet others are drug dealers, theives or just plain work shy. While we are forced to subscribe to a means of division of resources that relies on manufactuered scaricity there will always be violence inherrent in the system.
Just my opinion.
posted by
lionreign
on April 10, 2009 at 8:36 AM
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I have just read your piece and I feel I would like to speak about something that I keep hearing and it worries me about the frame of mind we are all allowing ourselves to be taken to.
I have been poor, and made to feel humiliated as a child but I wanted to do the best with my life that I could. I was fortunate to come up with an idea for a business and along with my late husband turned it into a successfull business, employed 120 people and worked our bums off to be successfull. None of this was handed to us on a plate. Nothing gave me more joy than seeing the people who I had taken off the dole begin to feel alive self confident and proud that they were now feeding their families. BUT the more successful we became the greater the divide. Not through lack of trying but through jealousy and hate. One day I woke up as one of those rich bastards you talk about. My lovely husband died and I was handed money from insurance companies. Go and enjoy yourself they said. The people we had given jobs too put me into a different bracket. I am a good and honest person. I have never experienced any kind of discrimination in my life ever apart from being rich. Please let me enjoy the rewards I have worked so hard for. I dont want to be made to feel guilty. The people who were probably throwing stones at the G20 protests into the windows of the banks probably were too young to have any savings. Lets be positive and make the world start to turn. Lets stop blaming others and rejoice in the fact that we all have a brain and the ability to make life better if only we look in the right places. Sorry about the size of this comment.
posted by
spiderfly
on April 10, 2009 at 3:43 AM
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So True
The damn rich. I totally agree with you.
posted by
Hackthorne19
on April 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM
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