Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Aragh! I can't decide! So I'll let you guys battle it out! So what will it be? Rich or Poor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JimVW Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Rich. Then if you decide it's not for you, you can be poor within 24 hours. It's kind of hard to do the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 VERY good point!you know how some people think being poor helps bring people closer.. like they have to struggle together so it gets them working together toward a common goal making them tighter in the processi think that is a valid point but doesn't hurt relationships as well.. you know like fighting over money and whatnotthen there's people who are rich that grow apart because being rich means you don't need the other person and there is so much more to wedge into a relationship...it's certainly a tough one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 rich of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jTreu Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 duh, rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sstim8or Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 I've rich and miserable, and I've been poor and miserable. Rich is better. -Burt Reynolds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by sstim8or -Burt Reynolds word is gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kestral Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Rich, as long as you get to spend it to make yourself feel better. The most depressing time in my life was actually when I had the most money I ever had, early 20's made 6 figures in the stock market but didn't spend it, had given up music and just didn't have my life together. Completely miserable sonofabitch. Knowing then what I know now, I would have bought myself a Neve BCM 10 (10-channel console with Neve 1073's) and set myself a sweet studio and started working on my music again. Also buy some nice clothes, go out more and have fun with people, play some more ladiez and LIVE. The answer is RICH. But you have to SPEND it and not be a f-cking Scrooge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIKILOCKEDOUT Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Poor ... wealth is relative, I'd rather have inner wealth than material wealth ... the more {censored} you have the more it ends up owning you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Rich... In character, spirit, health, friendship, family, faith, repsect. Rich financially??.....not as important to me...I'm content where I am, and I've seen too many people do crazy things trying to take it to the next level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 I have always had just a little bit of money but alot of stuff. It is the way I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIKILOCKEDOUT Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by Roy Brooks I have always had just a little bit of money but alot of stuff. It is the way I like it. I'm at the same place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dZjupp Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 i would say rich, because you could afford to spray a load on the golden girls at the MGM theme park and then have towels to clean up, btw, sorry about the aunt comment echo...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by dZjupp i would say rich, because you could afford to spray a load on the golden girls at the MGM theme park and then have towels to clean up, btw, sorry about the aunt comment echo...... that's ok.. she was a loathsome fictitious hermaphrodite and yeah i have the same golden girls dream and if i was rich.. i figure i could hook that up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 what's that story about the two brothers and the yaks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by RoboPimp what's that story about the two brothers and the yaks? *cracks open dustiest book on the shelf* hmm... *continues looking* errr... *eyes cross* uggh... no idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 There is a story in Tibet concerning two brothers, one of whom had ninety-nine yaks while the other had only one yak. The poor brother was quite content ... He had one yak and that was really all he needed ... he wasn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 they forgot the part where Vin Diesel comes in and punches the yak right between the eyes, the yak turns to dust then Vin Diesel looks at the greedy brother right in the eyes and says "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT BITCH!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by RoboPimp There is a story in Tibet concerning two brothers, one of whom had ninety-nine yaks while the other had only one yak. The poor brother was quite content ... He had one yak and that was really all he needed ... he wasn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by (((echo))) cool (kinda explains olle a little eh? ) well, I didn't want to point fingers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeverist Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 The problem with poverty is that there's just way too {censored}ing much of it. If you took all the wealth in the world and distributed it evenly it would give everyone like $1000 per year. We'd all be poor.So the solution to poverty, if there is one, can't consist of distributing all the resources - because you need to have money concentrated to create more wealth. The only way I see poverty being eliminated is through political change - progressive governments that dictate that vast amounts of wealth not be idle(as they are in most recessions/depressions), also not giving money to thugocracies which is what has kept Africa in poverty despite 1/2 a trillion dollars being given there in the last 40 years.Originally posted by StompboxMan I just had a rich friend call me a cheap ass SOB. I guess that what all rich people think of the poor. I'd rather be rich so I could donate my money to help the poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members (((echo))) Posted August 25, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by RoboPimp well, I didn't want to point fingers... well isn't he from the richest whitey country in the world?i'd be a gear whore too if i had his L00t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 Originally posted by jeverist The only way I see poverty being eliminated is through political change - progressive governments that dictate that vast amounts of wealth not be idle(as they are in most recessions/depressions), also not giving money to thugocracies which is what has kept Africa in poverty despite 1/2 a trillion dollars being given there in the last 40 years. The other thing is in America 85% of the wealth is in the hands of 20% of the poulation. Yet the top 20% of the wealthiest only generate 50% of the income. The bottom 60% of households possess only 4.2% of the nation's wealth while it earns 26.8% of all income. If you are in the bottom 60% YOU ARE POOR. Face the reality. And what is taxed? Income or wealth? The answer is income. That's why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And forget becoming wealthy working for someone else... I could go on and on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeverist Posted August 25, 2005 Members Share Posted August 25, 2005 heh...and I wasn't talking about Americans specifically, but even if you take a poor American(lets say a part time job at walmart making $6/hr working 25 hours a week - at 50 weeks/yr that's $7500 and compare his income to the rest of the world - still in the top 13-14 percent: http://www.globalrichlist.com/Originally posted by Jaymeister The other thing is in America 85% of the wealth is in the hands of 20% of the poulation. Yet the top 20% of the wealthiest only generate 50% of the income.The bottom 60% of households possess only 4.2% of the nation's wealth while it earns 26.8% of all income. If you are in the bottom 60% YOU ARE POOR. Face the reality.And what is taxed? Income or wealth? The answer is income. That's why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And forget becoming wealthy working for someone else...I could go on and on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urban Terrorist Posted August 26, 2005 Members Share Posted August 26, 2005 Ultimately you choose what owns you, if you have a weaker character then yes, your objects may own you. If you do not, then you will not let this happen. Money is an undeniably enriching asset. I have this argument with some hippies I know who seem to think you have to be poor to be enlightened. I would rather be meditating in a beautiful cool white room with pools and spas then a dingy council flat for sure. Also, money brings freedom, if you have no money, you have to work constantly to keep a roof over your head, I'm sure stacking shelves is great for karma... Only someone with money can afford to take 6 months of to travel across the world. More importantly than cars, or houses however, money enables you to experience so much more out of life.. If you wake up and decide you want to see the sun set over the Antarctic with the girl of your dreams, you can do it, hell you can buy a house there! You can fly balloons across the planes of Africa, wake up in a different continent every week.. You are free to experience so much out of life with money if you have the imagination. They say that me and my harder working friends have 'given up on life' because we are working hard at college to get a good career to experience life, but all they do is sit on Christs Piece in Cambridge (a hobo ridden park) and smoke joints and do speed, i find this absolutley hilarious! Best of all is their solution of living in a commune.. Great, until they break a leg and decide to use the NHS hospital paid for by people who actually work.. Such fantastically hypocritical and selfish idiotic bull{censored}.. All I would expect from hippies.. Such a selfish ideology, money puts your children through good education and pays for your childrens food, it helps pay for operations when a loved one is sick... I think one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen is the hippie buses at this hippy fair we have in Cambridge called The Strawberry Fayre, where hippies keep their children, isolated from society and with no chance of ever leading a normal, educated life, forcing their ideals on them.. The lies people tell themselves to avoid facing the reality of their ignorance and laziness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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