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ITS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY 3

Who DOESN’T have a vested interest in blowing sunshine up your ass about getting rich?  Well, rich being relative.  Gaining wealth, or advancing from your station, anyway.  The Puritan Work Ethic still, mostly, holds sway here.  And there is nothing wrong with a strong work ethic.  All cultures should encourage this, for maximum productivity.  I think the Protestants went TOO far, to the point where God himself took a personal interest in your balance sheet and a bad credit rating was grounds for spending all eternity in the fiery bowels of Hell.  They were not allowed to relax.

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This has had a profound impact on our culture ( even as every swinging cheese dingus out there tries to outdo everyone else dismantling what is left of that culture ).  It has vilified the poor, justified their mistreatment and elevated Mammon above even Baby Jesus.  Before, both the clergy and the elite were unified in pushing the propaganda, as throughout history, but lately as religion becomes another decentralizing contention point, advertising and the imperial propaganda corps of media have teamed up with Our Betters to ensure that the poor are kept in their place.

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What is the point in being rich if everyone else is?  None whatsoever.  If everyone has hooker and blow money, you have no strategic advantage displaying your peacock feathers.  The rich NEED the poor.  Otherwise, who mows the grass or even makes the robot mowers?  But our rich hate the poor.  This goes back to the English colonial masters being royalty.  From the very first, the slave plantation owners, the slave boat captains, the proto-industrialists feeding off extra cheap immigrant labor, all have maintained the illusion of a class-less system in this here new fangled YOU-nited States Of America.

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It was a lie then, when something like 16% of the population could vote, and it is a lie now when everyone including illegal aliens can vote.  Why does it matter who you vote for if only approved imperial mandarins will be elected?  They used to make governing easy, by only allowing the wealthy to vote.  They obviously voted for their own interests, as does everybody ( those who complain that the poor vote for welfare obviously ignore both the AARP and the corporate welfare schemes.  That is how brainwashed we are, with this irrational standard ).

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Now they make governing easy by lying that your vote counts.  And, they make it the fault of the poor by convincing everyone that everything bad the rich do is good but when the poor do the exact thing they are bad.  The poor lose their jobs to outsourcing and we actually cheer free markets and capitalism and if we get upset we are no longer employed it is because we are lazy and we envy the rich.  But the rich, envious of those richer than them, are hard workers and entrepreneurs, not envious for some reason.  Nor are they lazy.

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Not even when they don’t work hard at all and take the easy way out of any dilemma by simply laying off more people. That is always the Go-To answer.  Lay off more, and if they don’t find another job selling garage sale items on E-Bay, they are just lazy whores.  Of course, now the Chinese with much, much lower costs of living, not having to pay for all the monopoly pricing from the rich as we do because Evil Communism, can undercut the auction prices.  If the Uber Rich controlling the Internet don’t beat them to it by manipulating search engines or the like.

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But it is STILL the poor’s fault, isn’t it?  Somehow they lack the drive and moxie to rise about and persevere.  It is NEVER about economic forces and always about the individual’s moral shortcomings.  Now, I understand that if you have guzzled the Kool-Aid of the elite all your life, you cannot fathom any actions from the rich as being evil.  Not that you are a fool.  Nobody is stupid for being propagandized.  We ALL are, and most of us go to our grave happily embracing illusions meant to enslave us.  But nonetheless, deluded you certainly are.

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The whip never works as good as the carrot.  And the illusion you can share in the wealth is the best carrot stick out there ( almost as good as the Puritan Stick up your ass ).  Certainly, you can go from earning a paltry amount to a not so paltry amount.  And you can either squirrel away that extra for early retirement to get off the gerbil wheel, or you can piss it away on status symbols.  Your choice.  Hell, even the ill conceived mandatory medical insurance now has an escape clause.  You have options.  Slavery is not mandatory.

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There is still the metaphorical frontier land to escape to.  And you don’t even have to kill any Indians ( perhaps some Revenuers, but then that would be Bad Think talk, so never mind ).  And a lot of people are happy to escape.  Recognizing evil done by rich people, to get richer, at the expense of the poor, has absolutely nothing to do with envy.  Envy is if you want that money, not if you are pissed off about the screw job.  Lots of people don’t want any more money than is absolutely necessary to get on with life.

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Why would you even BE envious of rich people?  Their whole life is the pursuit of Mammon, and the selling of their soul.  What do poor people have the rich don’t?  They have TIME.  Not as much as they would like, because they have to pay triple the mortgage after that oh so wonderful Warren Buffet jacked up their mobile home prices, but they are still better off than the Mammon Brigade.  They have time, they have real friends ( not ones trying to use or abuse them for their money ) and they have love.

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Not to get all girly, but those intangible rewards are restricted by money.  Having wealth isn’t free.  There are a huge amount of sacrifices to be made.  And far fewer people than is assumed want that kind of bullspit in their lives.  The only truly greedy humper I’ve ever encountered in my life was the Baby Mamma, and she was more worried about stealing money than earning it. Oh, wait.  That kind of sounds like a rich person.  Who is that idiot that looks like Dr. Phil that sells those Get Out Of Debt courses?  He doesn’t sell those cheap.

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Now contrast him to the bloggers that post information for free on how to do the same thing.  Is the blogger envious?  I have a hard time believing that.  Nor is he lazy.  He is writing for free.  If not for free, for voluntary pay.  And paltry pay at that.  Would he want to be that cheese dingus that gets Chinese prison laborers to print his seminar courses really cheap so to increase his profits?  I doubt that also.  He realizes that money is FAR from everything.  Why be envious of the disease of Money Grubbing?  The blogger gets to go to heaven with a clear conscience.

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That’s right, a lot of poor people think it is a GOOD thing to not be greedy.  Sure, that is also a propaganda tool used by the rich to sedate the masses.  But at least it isn’t as stressful trying to compete with the rich in a rigged game.  And at least they are content in life.  They don’t need to be envious.  They have those intangible rewards.  The poor aren’t lazy, if they work ( and even if they don’t sometimes ).  And they are usually NOT envious.

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Without being able to articulate it, a lot of people see the downsides of capitalism ( as practiced, and as mislabeled ) and don’t want to play.  Think about who benefits from any propaganda before you believe and spread it.

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