1% counterattack

[Traitorfish]

How do we even know if there's a 1% involved in this case?

Leonel's comment was about snobby 1%ers in general, not necessarily this one hypothetical guy.

His 'class'?

So a guy that gets a degree in say, economics...becomes a banker, works his way up honestly, is a spawn of satan because of what you think of his 'class'.

Lord mercy.

I don't follow; why does profiting form exploitation become acceptable just because you "worked your way up" to that position?

 

[MobBoss]

Do you really think everyone in the banking industry 'profiting from exploitation'?

Really?

 

[MobBoss]

Thirty-seven dollars for ONE meal that isn't even supper?

Regardless of how much the banker's meal really cost, his attitude is reprehensible. How does he know the waitress herself doesn't despise the Occupy movement?

Anybody who tells a service industry employee to "get a real job" and has the gall to go back to that place should be told, "The employee took your advice and got a real job. If you want anything to eat, cook it and serve it yourself."

His attitude was falsely represented. The whole thing was a lie, remember?

 

[Traitorfish]

Do you really think everyone in the banking industry 'profiting from exploitation'?

Really?

I don't recall saying that I did.

 

[MobBoss]

I don't recall saying that I did.

Well, then feel free to explain this comment in more detail then:

I don't follow; why does profiting form exploitation become acceptable just because you "worked your way up" to that position?

Who, exactly, are you referring to if not bankers in general? And what do you offer as specific proof that they engage in 'profiting from exploitation'?

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, then feel free to explain this comment in more detail then:


Who, exactly, are you referring to if not bankers in general?

...Everyone who works in the banking industry is a banker?

And what do you offer as specific proof that they engage in 'profiting from exploitation'?

I would say that bankers are by definition engaged in economic exploitation. As devout a Christian as yourself might have been expected to agree with me.

 

[luiz]

I don't know what this obviously false story was supposed to demonstrate even if it was true. So one guy would be a jerk. There are rich jerks, poor jerks and middle class jerks.

The fact that so many people drew conclusions out of this nonsense is saddening. I just got back from Switzerland and one a-hole stole my backpack on a train. Based on some responses here, I guess I should conclude europeans are thiefs?

 

[Traitorfish]

I don't know what this obviously false story was supposed to demonstrate even if it was true. So one guy would be a jerk. There are rich jerks, poor jerks and middle class jerks.

And equally, if the most damning critique of these people that you can muster is that they're rude to wait-staff, then you didn't have much to say to start with.

 

[downtown]

And equally, if the most damning critique of these people that you can muster is that they're rood to wait-staff, then you didn't have much to say to start with.

Well...he was.

Fortunately, this story wasn't even real. It didn't happen.

 

[MobBoss]

...Everyone who works in the banking industry is a banker?

That doesnt clarify the point.

I would say that bankers are by definition engaged in economic exploitation. As devout a Christian as yourself might have been expected to agree with me.

Aside from your weak attempt to hurl my faith back at me, even you know that Christians are not subject to ancient Hebrew Law, but are rather covered by the new convenent. Thus your stab is easily parried....and in the spirit of your above comment I reply: are all bankers Christians? Do bankers only loan money to poor people?

I mean really.

I also add that perhaps you should re-read the parable about the servants that were given money to invest wisely. Nothing biblically wrong with getting a return on your investment and doing so isnt inheritly a sign of 'economic exploitation'.

 

[luiz]

And equally, if the most damning critique of these people that you can muster is that they're rude to wait-staff, then you didn't have much to say to start with.

True too.

Anyway, my anedoctal experience is rather the opposite of what people posted here. When interacting with relatively poor people such as waiters of cheap restaurants, the ultra-rich tend to be extra nice, perhaps out of fear of seeming awkward or offensive.

 

[Cutlass]

Do you really think everyone in the banking industry 'profiting from exploitation'?

Really?

The banking/finance industry doubled the percentage of GDP that ran through the national economy without doing any more work to earn it.

 

[Traitorfish]

That doesnt clarify the point.

What point? You're the one who asked the question. I'm just trying to figure out what you think I said.

Aside from your weak attempt to hurl my faith back at me, even you know that Christians are not subject to ancient Hebrew Law, but are rather covered by the new convenent. Thus your stab is easily parried....and in the spirit of your above comment I reply: are all bankers Christians? Do bankers only loan money to poor people?

I mean really.

Just saying, the criticism of usury has a vintage rather beyond Proudhon or Spence. It's not some eccentricity unique to ultra-gauche weirdos.

I also add that perhaps you should re-read the parable about the servants that were given money to invest wisely. Nothing biblically wrong with getting a return on your investment and doing so isnt inheritly a sign of 'economic exploitation'.

Thomas Aquinas thought that there was, and he's at least as much an authority on Christian matters as yourself, so I'd suggest that it isn't self-evident as all that.

 

[Hygro]

In the words of Chris Rock,

"Sometimes people with the most [stuff] have to shut up and let people with the least [stuff] talk [stuff] about them"