"Chin up, greedhead"
December 15, 2000 1:00 PM Subscribe
posted by quirked at 1:35 PM on December 15, 2000
posted by palegirl at 2:59 PM on December 15, 2000
"Everyone is entitled to exercise his or her personal demons..." (as opposed to exorcising them).
I can just imagine all the suffering gazillionares taking their personal demons to the demon park, romping with them and tossing the frisbee about. It gets the poor little demons the exercise they need after being cooped up all day in the condo, and keeps the owners' minds off their own troubles, too!
posted by redfoxtail at 3:16 PM on December 15, 2000
Given that...
1) Much of this wealth is on paper, and would vaporize if the owner attempted to cash in on it all at once. (No matter how great your company's stock is doing, dumping a few million shares at once is going to send the price down.)
2) Even if one were to impound all these billionaires' riches, it would be impossible to get it redistributed to third world citizens given the current political structure of the world. (Most of it would end up in the pockets of each country's rulers, just like most of the food currently does.)
3) Even if we could get it redistributed, most of the recipients wouldn't be able to do anything with it. There's nothing to buy.
... I don't feel bad about it at all.
posted by aaron at 3:40 PM on December 15, 2000
My personal demons have a personal trainer...
posted by wendell at 4:42 PM on December 15, 2000
Your third point is just infuriating. I don’t think everyone wants a yacht, but lots of people don’t want to be hungry.
posted by capt.crackpipe at 5:38 PM on December 15, 2000
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