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Even if true, so what!

#4 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2024-04-04 09:32 AM | FLAG MEH

You are correct in as much as life is a crap shoot and you get what you get when you get it. Furthermore, 99.90% of the people on the planet are simply grubs eating the leftovers... and that is what they (we) will ever be.

Frankly, I can deal with that. Looking over my life I've never made a lot of money but still managed to eke out all I sincerely wanted thus far. I am surprised about how it looks when the things I once saw as out of reach are mine to enjoy. My life is elevated from my origins and while light years away from rich I have known several very wealthy people. I recall being inside their homes and feeling as if I were in a museum. All the things around me in those lavish homes. I could look but never have as my own. I was okay with that.

When I ask myself what I would have done if I were born into such wealth. What I've wanted to do I am is probably not much different from what I have done. Perhaps I lack enough imagination in the things I desire to "become" that wealthy. I don't want enough.

Moses and Gautama Buddha left behind their billionaire existence. They aren't alone. They accomplished something big that brings in a lot of money... for centuries... but most don't. I got to know uber-wealthy people via friends from rich families who left the life and never amounted to much. So it's a temperament I guess.

What I do find disturbing is how some people feel as though people like me are trying to keep them from joining the billionaires club by something I think would benefit all. For example, taxing the uber-wealthy to the extent that they pay for the infrastructure to support their wealth-building enterprises... which they are currently refusing to do. They expect us to do the labor and pay for the infrastructure too... all the while bawling about how the "stock-holders" who aren't lifting a finger to earn that money are being short-changed. It's another entitlement welfare system... and why the whining about SocSec irks me so. It's sosdd.

Alas I wax philosophical. Life really is a crap shoot.

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