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SW-User
You can't sell white privilege to people who work their asses off, pay their taxes, obey the law, and don't ask for anything from anybody.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User This is bizarre, does a job and taxes render one blind?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@QuixoticSoul Some day when you have a job you will understand
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@sunsporter1649 I’ve had a job since I was 16.
SW-User
@QuixoticSoul It can, in a way.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User Self-inflicted myopia.
SW-User
@QuixoticSoul I can see both sides. Especially when a billionaire spouts off.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User Weird levels of class resentment - are you a communist of some sort? What is the problem with billionaires?
SW-User
@QuixoticSoul Communism is a great idea that can never work.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User You are only permitted to have one opinion, the opinion that is in total agreement with his
SW-User
@sunsporter1649 Sounds positively Trumpian.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User If not a communist - what’s the beef with rich people?
SW-User
@QuixoticSoul Most rich people are soulless bastards.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@sunsporter1649 Nah sporty, disagreement is great, room for lots of rational viewpoints out there. Remember that I constantly ding you for black and white thinking among your many other cognitive handicaps.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User That’s commie thinking - literally the sort of stuff they taught us in the USSR.
SW-User
@QuixoticSoul To attain great wealth and maintain integrity, honesty, and decency is in most cases impossible. Unless you win the lottery of course.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User Lmao this is seriously my grade school indoctrination coming back bwahaha.
Being rich doesn’t make you a bad person, and not everyone gets there by being a shark.
Being rich doesn’t make you a bad person, and not everyone gets there by being a shark.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
SW-User
@QuixoticSoul There are exceptions of course, but for the most part, it holds true.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@sunsporter1649 Vova keeps commies in check.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SW-User Most people are shit in general tbh 🤷♂️
Regardless, self-made billionaires are naturally predisposed to the bootstraps way of thinking, so Oprah is actually somewhat atypical - but those are details, really. Ultimately the privilege situation is pretty undeniable in our society, even if how it works out in life is neither uniform nor purely deterministic.
Regardless, self-made billionaires are naturally predisposed to the bootstraps way of thinking, so Oprah is actually somewhat atypical - but those are details, really. Ultimately the privilege situation is pretty undeniable in our society, even if how it works out in life is neither uniform nor purely deterministic.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@QuixoticSoul LOL, how big a check you gonna send to barry bonds?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@sunsporter1649 Zero.