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Solid-Stark on 31 August 2012

The greed is clear.



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HappySqurriel on 31 August 2012
Kasz216 said:

If you've ever been at the bottom or know people at the bottom... there is a BIG difference from the bottom Quintile and the next one.  However, again... only using the data he provided, that best represents his point...

8% at the bottom... raised to the the highest position.

So it most definitly isn't  42/50/0/0/8% situation... actually they have their source cited so i'll have further data shortly.

 

Basically, research shows that to get out of the bottom percentile with something like a 75-90% ability within like 5-10 years you need to accomplish 3 things.

1) Graduate Highschool.

2) Don't have a child before you are 25.

3) Have a job lined up when you graduate.  Even if it's just working at McDonalds.


The reason why we have such a problem at the lowest level is that we

A) Have a lot of highschool dropouts, like the county I'm in, where I think the graduation rate is... 46-56% or so?

B) Do an AWFUL job with teen pregnancy with it happening all the time.

C) Give everybody the idea they should go to college, even when they really shouldn't.


One thing that is missed when people talk about people who end up staying in the economic "class" that their parents were in is that a large portion of the values, beliefs and skills needed to be successful are learned primarily from a child's parents; often through modeling but also through direct lessons.



Solid-Stark on 31 August 2012
BasilZero said:
Solid-Stark said:
The greed is clear.


The greed is strong with this one (the woman I mean , not you xD).

Insert Yoda meme here XD



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yum123 on 31 August 2012

fuck she disgusts me. she had a large amount of wealth simply handed to her for doing nothing and you can tell by her weight she had alot handed to her



skeezer on 31 August 2012
superchunk said:
There's nothing really wrong with what she said and I'm not rich.

I came from very poor background... i.e homeless a couple times. I worked my ass off as did my wife. We both now have Master level educations and a family income of six figures USD.

During college I did not go out and party each night/weekend, I did not join a dumb ass frat house.. don't need to pay to have friends... instead I worked 40hrs a week at retail and busted my ass in a computer lab.

Worked hard early to play more later. :)

While I understand what you are saying, you also have to realize that you were lucky to be born in a part of the globe that can offer you those opportunities.



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tripenfall on 31 August 2012

She ate a whole lamb prior to making those coments. This is the same woman trying to cut
her brother and sister out of the will.... Human trash....



Chris Hu on 31 August 2012

Greed you gotta love it. Its the main reason the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.



fordy on 31 August 2012

This is the same woman who bought almost 20% of Fairfax Media, demanded 3 seats on the board of directors (probably needed them all for her fat ass), and wanted to be granted abilities to override Fairfax's charter of editorial independence. Yeah, just what we need, another Aussie asshole looking to add their own personal opinion to the news. The difference is, Murdoch tries to be subtle about it. Everyone can smell Gina doing this a mile away!

After she found that the board would not give in to her demands, she sold all of her shares in Fairfax. Yeah, no agenda at all....



Chris Hu on 31 August 2012
spurgeonryan said:

 

In case anyone was wondering what she looks like from behind.

 

Everyone needs to shut their trap about this wonderful lady! Because of her money all the pig farmers of Western Austria have a roof over their heads from selling her their bacon and bacon fat.

Good one she is definetly one of the most obnoxious super rich people in the wold.  Sure its not that hard to make money if you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth.



Chris Hu on 31 August 2012
Kasz216 said:
crissindahouse said:
superchunk said:
There's nothing really wrong with what she said and I'm not rich.

I came from very poor background... i.e homeless a couple times. I worked my ass off as did my wife. We both now have Master level educations and a family income of six figures USD.

During college I did not go out and party each night/weekend, I did not join a dumb ass frat house.. don't need to pay to have friends... instead I worked 40hrs a week at retail and busted my ass in a computer lab.

Worked hard early to play more later. :)

yeah but that wouldn't work if everyone would do that. not everyone can work as whatever you do, there are only limited ressources for something you can make good money with. it's not as if everyone on this planet could open an own company to make some money or that everyone could work for a company at a postion to make enough money. there doesn't come money from nowhere for everyone and it's not as if there wouldn't be still the jobs people don't get enough money for which the same amount of people have to do like they do nowadays. we don't have robots who can do all the low paid jobs on this planet, with you who doesn't have to do the low paid jobs anymore, there is someone else who has to do it now instead of you.

That's actually not true.  Money does "come from nowhere" as value is increased by new products getting introduced into the economy.

Additionally, as low level workforce dereaeses demand increases and so does wages.  For example in North Dakota it's something like $12 an hour to work at McDonalds.

Everyone coulnd't be rich relativly, but compaired to how we are now... everyone would be "rich."  Just how, the poor now, are better off then rhe Rich of say the 1970's.

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of high paying mining jobs in North Dakota so without those natural resorces their would be no $12 an hour jobs at McDonalds.