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fatslob-:O on 23 July 2017
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Pemalite said:

Wealth is all relative.

We would look stupidly rich compared to someone in Africa living on less than a dollar a day, I probably look extremely wealthy next to some forum posters.

I think the important take away is that wealth doesn't equate to intelligence.
There are a ton of multi-billionaires who are wealthy due to circumstance rather than actually had made good investments or worked hard for it.

Yet a parent who is working on the (bullshit) $7 an hour minimum US wage and still manages to pay all their bills, feed their children... Are probably far more thrifty with money than someone born into privileged circumstance.

What Trump should do is appoint people based on merit, not on wealth. He should have drained the swamp, not filled it up twice as high with sharks.

Not if we're talking about monetary wealth that is ... 

Wealth may not equate to intelligence but there's an undeniably pretty damn good correlation if we check out this study from Duke University (a very reputable institution) that 45% of the billionaires attended schools which required standardized test scores that were in the one percentile. That means if we extrapolate from the SAT scores then the vast majority of the 45% of the billionaires have an IQ of at least over 120 ... 

Sure there exists billionaires who got rich due to other circumstances but that doesn't discount the fact that 87% either created it entirely or reinvested the inherited wealth ... 

People forget that wealth is *only* a temporary status and not a permanent one so the less fortunate without even being considerate show ire in the form of jealousy instead of improving upon themselves when billionaires don't get to enjoy their status for very long ... (Billionaires have an average age of 63 so we should let them enjoy what little life they have left to offer them rather than demonize them.) 

I doubt those 'thrifty' with money would be working for $7.25/hr or have children ... (The latter is especially destructive to wealth growth in addition to dealing to getting minimum wage.) 

@Bold One does not exclude the other ... 

Pemalite said:

I often get meaningul conversation out of him.

Just because I may not agree with allot of his perspectives, doesn't mean I should avoid coercing with him.

Meh, let him bad mouth me ... 

I find his idealism more grotesque than naive. His protests are specifically the reason why I got moderated for hinting a possibly valid observation that quite a few would find offensive LOL ...