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OccultHawk 12-18-2018 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 2025642)
Youre laughably ridiculous over moral financial success. It's okay for some people to be better off than others, as long as the lowest standards of living accommodate all human needs.

But they don’t because a tiny fraction of the people are hoarding the vast majority of the earth’s resources. The pie is finite.

Zhanteimi 12-18-2018 05:52 PM

When dragons hoard treasure, people eventually come and hunt them down and kill them.

OccultHawk 12-18-2018 06:04 PM

http://staticimg.myfirstclasslife.co...256/Garage.jpg

One person’s home.

http://africanpovertyproject.weebly....571789.jpg?348

Another person’s home.

Surprisingly, this is actually the same planet. The person who owns the top home is welcome to visit the person in the second picture. But the person in the second picture is not welcome on the property in the first picture. The property in the first picture is heavily guarded by government and private security companies that will arrest and even kill uninvited visitors. Even though the occupants of both residencies are native to the same planet one single person is allowed to decide who is given access to all the resources in the first picture. I get that it’s weird af that one person would be allowed to hoard that much of the planet while another person is only allowed a scratch of dry desert. Like if I hadn’t actually seen this with my own eyes I wouldn’t believe it either.

The Batlord 12-18-2018 06:18 PM

The second person must be a midget if they can live inside that kid.

Zhanteimi 12-18-2018 06:20 PM

That kid needs to be at least....three times bigger!

OccultHawk 12-18-2018 06:23 PM

I bet neither of you punks have seen a starving child irl

The Batlord 12-18-2018 06:25 PM

Nah I just stare straight ahead and throw my pocket change at them like a good Democrat.

OccultHawk 12-18-2018 06:28 PM

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the existence of wealth is what mathematically necessitates the existence of poverty
Yes. If a person doesn’t understand this you have to stay on this point. It gets tiresome because it’s so obvious but it’s the only possible starting point for a productive conversation about wealth and poverty. I tried using pictures above to make the same point for those who don’t read so well.

OccultHawk 12-18-2018 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2025675)
Nah I just stare straight ahead and throw my pocket change at them like a good Democrat.

I saw kids in that condition when I crossed the border from India to Bangladesh.

It’s ****ing haunting.

OccultHawk 12-18-2018 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2025679)
there's no sufficient answer to why you don't take the money you spend on Wi-Fi and donate it to starving children

not that I'm not with you, it's just depressing to know that you and I suck too

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