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62 people pulled themselves up by their bootstraps



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fluky-nintendy said:
Money is overrated.

being poor isnt





Power comes with money. Unless we're talking good old fashioned uprising with some public beheadings, nothing will ever change, because they set the rules themselves.

Being aware might be beneficial, I guess.. But in the end, its barely worth thinking about.
That's life ¯_(ツ)_/¯



Money cannot extend your life and defeat death, well even when you are sad, your video games, car, house, and toys cannot even make you a very happy person. But we need money, but for a tools not as a king or God. Money is essentials but not a priority. Most of richest person on earth never chase money, money chase them, because they use money as a tools not as a God.



That's the reason why capitalism is dead,
We just haven't find the system to replace with ,I hope we do it before it's too late.



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I believe it's matter of poor countries with big population that make this figure as shocking

a fair figure would exclude those undeveloped countries, as the world's richest obviously make their money from developed countries, where the people are wealthy enough to pay for their goods/services/entertainment, so there is a balance (more or less) that cannot be broken (unless we go back to slavery)

the world's poorest can survive without microsoft, telecom and facebook, which are good examples of the services that the world's richest provide, so it is not as bad as it sounds

and most importantly, world's richest are also some of the world's biggest philanthropists, "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" for example



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

NYCrysis said:
Nirvana_Nut85 said:


Unfortunately, the backbone of every empire to ever exist came from slavery and stolen wealth/land. 

 

Sorry, you should learn Indian history. India didn't have slavery, nor it's inhabitants ever wage a war on any other nation. Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism all gave birth in India while buddhism spread throught asia by trade and peaceful contact. And since their inception, those religions have accepted eachother and others, until Islamic Conquests (1200-1700) and British Colonialism (1700-1800) sent India (and China) in a way back a 1000 years. All the while generation of Indians, and Africans were being supressed and forced to basically make colonists rich, yes in fact it still is true, why is it that europe and and america own more wealth than all other races, when for the majority of humanity asia was the superpower? Before Europe and Islamic people started interfereing with their affairs with swords and guns ablazen. This article's maps proves my point: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/09/map_of_the_week_global_wealth.html

That is not actually factual. Although not to the extent of other countries, there was slavery in pre-islamic India. Here is an article that details the history of slavery in India. http://www.importantindia.com/1089/slavery-in-ancient-india/ This was prior to Islamic or colonial invasions. 
Also around 500 A.D is when they started bringing in African slaves who were the lowest in the caste system.

There are also accounts of pre colonial and islamic wars in Ancient India as well. The Kalinga war as an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_War. Which was fought for "economical" and "political" reasons which basically spells out a land grab.

Europe  owns the majority of the wealth due to the simple fact that they were more technologically and militarily advanced from the Renaissance on (which once America was established, followed the same suite). It has nothing to do with Religion.  It has everything to do with power and if these Asian countries had the same capibilities, they would have done the same thing. 



" Rebellion Against Tyrants Is Obedience To God"

Stop complaining you lazy socialist!! I was born In Africa, at 5 I was herding elephants for 10 cents an hour, I work hard and now I live in the freest country in the world and I make more than 2$ an hour. Also it's not like this is new it as been like that since the beginning of Time.



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

The world population is 7.3 billion today back in 2012 it was 7.05 billion that 250 million extra people in the last 3 years isn't because of developed countries.

As long as the poorest people keep having more kids then the wealth they have will decrease per person nothing is being taken from them.

Sub-Saharan Africa's population is predicted to go from below 1 billion today to over 2.2 billion by 2050 that's only 35 years and worse in most countries as people get wealthier and see an increase int their life expectancy they have less children but in Africa they are having more, completely different to trends seen in India, China, south east Asia and Latin America.



Things that make rich people rich: Smart work, Dedication. Investing. Long hours. Sacrificing when they are younger. Marriage and family. Things that make people poor: Smoking weed. Breeding. Dropping out of school. Laziness. Buying stuff they can't afford. Party time 24/7. Yolo. If you can't afford to support yourself, don't breed others into your mix. Think of a Doctor. No party in HS, good grades. No party in College. 10 years to get degree, mega loans owed. Live lite for 10 more years to pay back loans. 38 years old and now you can start to live. All those years of dedication and sacrifice equals rich for the rest of your life. And then some lazy weed smoking breeder come along and wants your money because he is poor because he partied his 20s and 30s away...