Livin the Life We Can Only Dream About - or a Nightmare??

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I guess we have to define greed or decide how much isenough. But by doing so you remove what I believe has been the allure of theAmerican dream, The more I sacrifice and the harder I work the better mychances of success are. And since we need a measurement for success we usemoney. I believe that having the social conscience to help others is somethingwe all need but if you want to remove incentive then cap the most anyone isallowed to have. It may not be the best system but it is the best systemin today's world. I also think that for most folks there is a point at whichmoney becomes more of a tool or opportunity to do good things, but that pointis different for all of us. Is there excess in our system? Absolutely! Butmaybe we need to start building the foundations of social responsibility in ourchildren and grandchildren and hope they are better equipped to handle theirfinancial excesses.

I think someone once said “Without history, you have no appreciationof the present nor vision of the future.”
Looks like we needto be that history.

 

[commando1]

I absolutely agree with you there can not be a cap on what you can accumulate. You have to have dreams or there would be no incentive. Society will fail as it did with the the former USSR where you were allowed one crappy Soviet made (fill in the blank) per one central state assigned household.
That's where social conscience comes in. 500 cars? The man has no concept of social consciousness. He can go to church once a week and donate to UNICEF every Halloween but he's pressured by appearances and by appearing so he feels he gets a pass on Greed. It's what you do with sincerity and without fanfare.
500 cars for personal ownership makes me not want to have a beer with him. And not out of envy...

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[rexus31]

In all reality, why does anyone care how many this or how many that anyone has? I don't care how he spends his money. He earned it and can buy how many of whatever that makes him happy.

 

[polara71]

More Polaras.....
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[67Monaco]

Ok, so what do we have here...
One man who has his say over all the cars or all the people who have their say on one car.
Come on, people. Please... I'm very passionate about one having more than one needs.

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Who shall decide someone has more than one needs? You?

So you get a pass on Greed by hard work?
How about hard work and no greed. Even better, right?

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Who better to enjoy the fruits of ones labor? The ones that won't, or refuse to, work? Maybe society as a whole? If the fruits of your labor are going to be taken and given to others, what's the point of working hard? Why not become one of the takers?

I absolutely agree with you there can not be a cap on what you can accumulate. You have to have dreams or there would be no incentive. Society will fail as it did with the the former USSR where you were allowed one crappy Soviet made (fill in the blank) per one central state assigned household.
That's where social conscience comes in. 500 cars? The man has no concept of social consciousness. He can go to church once a week and donate to UNICEF every Halloween but he's pressured by appearances and by appearing so he feels he gets a pass on Greed. It's what you do with sincerity and without fanfare.
500 cars for personal ownership makes me not want to have a beer with him. And not out of envy...

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You constantly deride socialism but you fail to see you're died in the wool socialist. You honestly don't see it? "Social conscience", "having more than one needs"?

 

[1978 NYB]

With MegaMillion/Powerball crazy money....

Buy a farm, build a Leno garage and a 1/4 mile track on the farm.

Oh...I almost forgot....build a Bada Bing at the 1/8 mile....