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poor? Pay up!
urlwolf:
Great article at the washintong post: Poor? Pay up!.
In fact, one cannot afford to be poor!
gexecuter:
The poor always end up paying someway or another and that pretty much sucks.
mouser:
I'm afraid the age old saying is more true than ever.. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer -- that's how the world's economies are set up -- while not impossible, it's a very hard syndrome to break out of. >:(
f0dder:
It's an old truth, even in countries with relatively well-working welfare as Denmark.
40hz:
Right in keeping with something noted by many financial planners and counselors:
Once your net worth exceeds one million dollars, "The System" starts working for you rather than the other way around. So the name of the game is to get your net worth up above $1 million as quickly as possible. Because once you hit that million, it becomes relatively easy to move up to $10 million and beyond. Once you're a millionaire you become eligible for tax breaks, investment opportunities, and favorable credit terms only offered to the very wealthy. Our society is set up to reward what it considers "success."
As Steven Schwartz so nicely put it in the song All for the Best from the musical Godspell:
Some men are born to live at ease,
Doing what they please,
Richer than the bees are in honey...
Never growing old,
Never feeling cold,
Pulling pots of gold from thin air.
They are the best in every town,
Best at shaking down
Best at making mountains of money...
They can't take it with them, but what do they care?
They get the center of the meat,
Cushions on their seat
Houses on a street where it's sunny...
Summers by the sea,
Winters warm and free
All of that, and we get the rest...
Yes, who is this land for?
The sun and the sand for?
You guessed!
It's all for The Best...
--- End quote ---
Probably be a lot funnier if it weren't so sadly true. :-\
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