Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

[GreatestIam]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

 

[Oddball]

Quit watching after 10 seconds....Wealth is earned, not distributed....The wealthy deprive nobody of anything by being wealthy.

More divide-and-conquer BS.

 

[Blackrook]

I thought welfare was supposed to take care of this problem.

 

[there4eyeM]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

You thought they had these instincts?

 

[Oddball]

I thought welfare was supposed to take care of this problem.

Exactly.

Fifty years and $20 trillion of confiscation and redistribution later, and we're told that poverty, hunger, homelessness, and the "distribution of wealth" are worse than ever....And that's somehow the fault of the wealthy?!?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

It was not there to lose in the first place. In the past the 'rich and powerful" took care of the peasants to keep them from forming a mob and taking over, not out of some need to do good.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It was called noblesse oblige. The idea that the rich were blessed and obliged to care for the poor.

If you look at the grand charities, the hospitals, research foundations, they are all supported by the rich. The poor, on the other hand, stopped giving thanks to the Almighty whose demands the rich were honoring. The poor gained a sense of supreme entitlement. They became even more creatively poor.

The rich still support the City of Hope, Cancer centers, the Crippled Children's foundation. For the rest, the poor get paid to be poor by getting paid from the taxes. They simply want a raise for doing nothing except bitching about how they want more.

 

[g5000]

Quit watching after 10 seconds....Wealth is earned, not distributed....The wealthy deprive nobody of anything by being wealthy.

More divide-and-conquer BS.

You're absolutely right. Wealth should be earned, not distributed. However, in the US wealth is being legislatively redistributed up and down the chain.

Not just down. Up, too.

Mostly up. Unnaturally. It isn't being earned.

Just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean you should stay willfully blind to the truth.

 

[Blackrook]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Primitive people had another way of dealing with slackers. The Native Americans took the very sick and the very old out into the wilderness and abandoned them to die alone. Those who did not hunt or work were simply banished to live with out the support and protection of the tribe.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

It depends on the individual what they want to do with their cash. In my home town we had two Carnegie funded libraries But we also had squalor and hunger whilst local grandees lived off the fat of the land.
The great win for the rich is to persuade enough poor people to back policies that only benefit the rich.

 

[g5000]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

 

[Blackrook]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

There is no possible way to create a level playing field. Even the Communists didn't create a level playing field. The party elite were very privileged and had everything they needed, and almost everyone else starved.

 

[g5000]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

There is no possible way to create a level playing field. Even the Communists didn't create a level playing field. The party elite were very privileged and had everything they needed, and almost everyone else starved.

We cannot create a perfectly level playing field, true. But the rich and powerful have legislatively grossly distorted the playing field deliberately. And that can certainly be undone.

It just requires everyone waking up to the fact they are being robbed. I see people on here defend the robbery from their own pockets tooth and nail all the time.

And then there are those who turn a willfully blind eye to it.

 

[FreeAndClear]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

There is no possible way to create a level playing field. Even the Communists didn't create a level playing field. The party elite were very privileged and had everything they needed, and almost everyone else starved.

That’s not communism though that’s oligarchy, which surprise surprise Russian became the moment the Soviet Union collapses


There will never be a perfect level playing field. Like ever. However it is def a goal to strive for.

 

[Oddball]

Quit watching after 10 seconds....Wealth is earned, not distributed....The wealthy deprive nobody of anything by being wealthy.

More divide-and-conquer BS.

You're absolutely right. Wealth should be earned, not distributed. However, in the US wealth is being legislatively redistributed up and down the chain.

Not just down. Up, too.

Mostly up. Unnaturally. It isn't being earned.

Just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean you should stay willfully blind to the truth.

None of that precludes the fact that the wealth has to first be earned by someone, before it can be expropriated and redistributed....The State has no money of its own to play God with.

"Just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean you should stay willfully blind to the truth."

 

[g5000]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

There is no possible way to create a level playing field. Even the Communists didn't create a level playing field. The party elite were very privileged and had everything they needed, and almost everyone else starved.

That’s not communism though that’s oligarchy, which surprise surprise Russian became the moment the Soviet Union collapses


There will never be a perfect level playing field. Like ever. However it is def a goal to strive for.

Unfortunately, too many people have gotten the crazy idea that trying to remove the vampire legislation sucking the life out of the middle class and poor is "socialism".

Far from it. The existing scheme will be the death of capitalism. Leveling the playing field IS capitalism.

 

[g5000]

Quit watching after 10 seconds....Wealth is earned, not distributed....The wealthy deprive nobody of anything by being wealthy.

More divide-and-conquer BS.

You're absolutely right. Wealth should be earned, not distributed. However, in the US wealth is being legislatively redistributed up and down the chain.

Not just down. Up, too.

Mostly up. Unnaturally. It isn't being earned.

Just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean you should stay willfully blind to the truth.

None of that precludes the fact that the wealth has to first be earned by someone, before it can be expropriated and redistributed.

Wealth is CREATED by someone, and then it is being legislatively funneled to those who did not create or earn it.

 

[FreeAndClear]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

There is no possible way to create a level playing field. Even the Communists didn't create a level playing field. The party elite were very privileged and had everything they needed, and almost everyone else starved.

That’s not communism though that’s oligarchy, which surprise surprise Russian became the moment the Soviet Union collapses


There will never be a perfect level playing field. Like ever. However it is def a goal to strive for.

Unfortunately, too many people have gotten the crazy idea that trying to remove the vampire legislation sucking the life out of the middle class and poor is "socialism".

Far from it. The existing scheme will be the death of capitalism. Leveling the playing field IS capitalism.

Socialism is a dirty word. It’s been a dirty word for a century. “Socialism is creeping, it’s coming and it’s right around the corner”. Here we are 100 years later and it’s still just around the corner. That’s a big ass building its trying to circumnavigate

 

[g5000]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

A level playing field so there are less poor which we need to support.

There is no possible way to create a level playing field. Even the Communists didn't create a level playing field. The party elite were very privileged and had everything they needed, and almost everyone else starved.

That’s not communism though that’s oligarchy, which surprise surprise Russian became the moment the Soviet Union collapses


There will never be a perfect level playing field. Like ever. However it is def a goal to strive for.

Unfortunately, too many people have gotten the crazy idea that trying to remove the vampire legislation sucking the life out of the middle class and poor is "socialism".

Far from it. The existing scheme will be the death of capitalism. Leveling the playing field IS capitalism.

Socialism is a dirty word. It’s been a dirty word for a century. “Socialism is creeping, it’s coming and it’s right around the corner”. Here we are 100 years later and it’s still just around the corner. That’s a big ass building its trying to circumnavigate

I have big problems with socialism. And it has been creeping more and more into our society. Our government is vastly larger and more intrusive and more controlling of wealth than ever before.

In fact, the redistribution of wealth UP the chain is just as socialistic as redistributing it to the poor.

Socialism is simply the means of controlling production. It does not mean in one direction.