I know it's insensitive, but...
I was watching news about the wildfires in California and the houses they showed on fire were all what would seem to be million dollar mansions. I was thinking to myself, for once the little guy isnt getting screwed and the rich people who probably have insurance and enough money to build another mansion on the side of a mountain can sweat it out a little. I really had no pity for them considering how large an unneccessary those houses were. Call me insensitive, but rich people have it too easy and need some more challenges. Now if the fire destroys a middle class or poor neighborhood that pretty much sucks cause they don't have the money to just make another one, and some people may not have insurance.
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I can kinda see what you're saying. Still, no matter who you are, having your house burn down sucks. Sure, it's big and unneccesary, but what if those houses continained things of special value to the owners, like family pictures and stuff? I dunno, I find it hard to dislike rich people just for being so rich. They're people too, afterall.
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Well, if you see a fire coming down the mountain toward your house or neighborhood and you value those sentimental items, like family documents and pictures, I would imagine that you would take them with you when you evacuate, like we do here when hurricanes come and cause an evacuation. It's the reasonable and smart thing to do, if those people leave all that stuff in their mansion or don't care then that's their own fault for being stupid like that. Rich people that lose their mansion, their antique imported furnature, expensive abstract art, stainless steel appliances, their plasma screen TVs, and their collection of Harley Davidsons, don't particularly warrent much sympathy from me, sorry. Those people pay some big home owners insurance bills to protect all their worldly possessions and will easily be able to get it all back, but just knowing that someone who's probably got it a lot easier than 80% of Americans is suffering like the rest of us working class slobs kind of makes me feel good.
Edited by: VIDEO GAMER X 1 at: 10/27/03 6:59 pm
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Me neither, My parents worked there whole lives to get us where we are today, and thats outta Detroit and into a new house in the burbs.
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I'm just surprised some disgruntled layed off employee didn't toss a molitov cocktail out the window of their car driving down Beverly Hills or Bellaire during the Santa Ana wind season as an act of civil disobedience and economical vigilantism. I wouldn't do it myself, I'm not willing to accept the possiblity of my actions maybe killing someone, however I'm just surprised some desperate nut or domestic terrorist hasn't figured it out yet
I don't get this. I mean, really, this is insane. Loss is loss. Just because people are rich doesn't mean that they deserve to lose it. Some of these people worked hard to be where they are, and you'd just as soon see it taken from them because you aren't there yet?
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Most people wouldn't do that because most people are better than that. I mean, look at you, you're fucking insane already and that's below even you.
Edited by: Blink1928 at: 10/27/03 7:18 pm
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Piracy. That alone makes me not feel bad for them.
To further explain, it really dosn't do anything, however there so caught up in there money that they think it does. Like the guy you see before every movie who works on the sets. He gets paid before the movie comes out, wheather it does good or not. He can move from job to job because there not gonna stop making movies just to show us people who illegally download movies.
I don't want you to get the idea that I condone the abuse of innocent people, however there is more important value lesson to be learned here. PEOPLE are more important than MATERIAL POSSESSIONS. I'm sorry to say but most of the rich people I've encountered or spoken with have some bad and horrible attitudes about people who are not like them, and for once I would like them to "live for awhile in someone else's shoes" And BESIDES. All these rich people are losing NOTHING, they have INSURANCE! They will get their mansion back, probably bigger than the first one, they'll buy all their mahogany furnature and fancy rich boy toys again, and they'll be right back where they were, but at least they got to see the example of how it can "all be taken away" and how all that money they have means absolutely nothing.
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For crying out loud I have wealthy relatives that live in the South Carribean, and they have some very snotty and horrible attitudes about them, at least the husband does, not his wife, my Aunt, she's cool. The guy to me was a pompus @#%$ with this "i'm better than you are because I have money and a lot of nice things" attitude. It was pathetic, and people like this, in my opinion, need to be taught a lesson like children.
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GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I MADE A TYPO!!! *head hit keyboard* I really try to avoid those in my Board City strips, but there it is. Grrrr. I meant for the rich guy to say "burning," not "bringing."
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Some rich people are snotty, so a neighborhood of them deserves to be taken out (assuming that all of the homes hit were rich ones, I don't know much about the story)? What about the lower-middle-class ones who bitch about how the rich act pompous to them and ironically act pompous in their own way by doing so? I hope your house burns down. Don't worry, it could be worse...
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I think they deserve some chalamity when we "little people" have to deal with so much crap, and they, the owners of companies and such treat us like dirt or fire us while they take another million dollar pay raise.
Destruction in general is not a good thing, however destruction that might teach a lesson to these people that might experience a part of the suffering of loss and stress we have to endure when we have to pawn our TV or stereo just to pay the Rent cause we are poor and won't get hired by a high paying job or ever be able to sit on a "Board of Directors" in our entire lives.
I truly hope no one else dies because of the fires, that's not fair, no one should die because of it, and if it was arson than the guy who started it, (if they ever find him, which I doubt) should be prosecuted for doing it. As much as I'm all about teaching wealthy people a lesson or two about seeing how bad life is for the rest of us, it doesn't merit killing anyone.
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I'm sure there are ways of teaching them a lesson that don't involve their homes being destroyed, either... and what the hell do you mean they aren't really losing anything? They have insurance and all that but they're still losing their homes and possessions regardless of whether they're getting new ones. They still have to start over like the rest of us would.
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I don't think you people who have the position you have about it read enough of the business news to understand my position about wealthy and rich people at the heads of companies.
Right now millions of American workers are being layed off because corporations are shipping their workforce overseas to India, China, or Mexico to save money. An average american programmer might make about 60,000 a year, in India IBM only has to pay the same programmer about 10,000 if he's lucky. So they sucker punch American workers, send all their facilities to India to make MORE PROFIT, when they were already making enough profit to begin with, and weren't losing money.
Many corporations are scaling back their payrolls for entry level workers and taking away benefits like Health insurance and 401k, and saying if they don't like it, too bad, we could fire you. Trust me, I was a victim TWICE of this. I was layed off twice from two fortune 500 companies who either closed down their local facility and moved it to India and Canada, or hired cheaper less educated teenagers to replace me. While of course the CEO of both the companies I talk about takes salary increases in excess of a few million dollars. Fu<k that! So if people's like that mansions and guest houses burn down, let 'em burn baby, let 'em burn.
Quote:I'm sorry to say but most of the rich people I've encountered or spoken with have some bad and horrible attitudes about people who are not like them
Funny. That's the reason a lot of people use to justify RACISM. You don't know anything about the people that live in those houses other than the fact that they have big houses. I live on a pretty big house an acreage, but my family is by no means rich. My parents finnished their payments on our old house, and got a good deal on this one. My mom just recently took a 50% pay cut, and my dad is out of work. We're just getting by. But if you saw our house getting burned down on the news, we'd deserve it because it's teaching us a lesson about materialism. You make me sick.
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