Darren's and indeed many other people's lame excuse is that they're too humble to be greedy. As if! If anything, most people are greedier than that 1%. The only difference is that people are bad at it, unlike that 1%.
Just consider the fact that Average Joe would be just too happy to evade tax. Richer Joe, instead, might be doing the same with his $1bn business. In both cases, they're breaking the law. The "occupy wallstreet" movement is simply hypocrisy. Did I happen to mention that I'm far from rich? In the coming years, I'll be struggling to get my own drop of land. The only unfair part I see is people complaining while buying iPads and iCrap over Facebook, Twitter etc.. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Darren Martyn > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris - Empathy, guilt, and morals. Guilt being a major factor. The > > possibility was always there to make millions via evil means, but morals > and > > knowing it would be hard to live with. > > > > The problem is not getting lots of money. That is the easy part. The > issue > > is with living with yourself afterward. > How about illegal? Check out the Hobbs Act [1]. I'm not making this > crap up - the US has laws on the books for negatively affecting > commerce (which the crash did), and using fear to peddle their warez > (how financial institutions market their instruments). There's > probably provisions in the PATRIOT Act, too. > > The last tine I checked (about a year ago), the SEC had opened fewer > than 100 civil investigations. No criminal investigations, despite the > fact that some of the financial institutions created spurious ratings > companies just to rate their instruments 'good'. > > Jeff > > [1] > http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/131mcrm.htm > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bob Dobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Who are the real threats to the US: terrorist who try to dream up ways > >>> to do the US harm, or Corporate and Congress which does the US harm? > >> > >> I hate to contribute to an off-topic thread but you've successfully > >> trolled me here: Congress has done FAR more harm to the US than > terrorists > >> over the last 10 years by just about every measure. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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