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Do you think it's okay for people like you to be insanely jealous of others?
I do not see where that is emotionally healthy...
Mircea
Mircea,
I liked all of your answers except for the one above. I think it deserves a serious response.
Because it's not just jealousy of the Waltons that's at issue. It's a sense of pity for the kids that grow up in the squalor of places like the ghetto's of Miami. It's the shame of knowing that only parts of our country are in the first world, but there are large sections that are squarely in the 3rd world with all the grinding poverty and corruption that goes along with that term. It's looking at the future and getting the sinking feeling that we may end up like Calcutta, with a very few Waltons mixed in with plenty of people standing on the corner begging for a meal.
For me personally, I am beginning to feel a dissonance between what I think is "fair" (minimal taxation, minimal redistribution of income, the complete hertiability of property, etc.) and what I think produces the best outcome for everyone involved. In the old economy I was largely against the redistribution of income, but as the value of labor is diminished by automation and foreign competition, I'm starting to think there has to be a better way.
So if you're willing I'm interested in your response to the question posed.
I think you're going to see more reactions like this in the future. People from first world nations are seeing what unchecked mass immigration from third world **** holes is doing to their countries.
I think governments have a hand at displacing immigrants and then acting like they just all happened into one place. Boise, Idaho has seen a HUGE population of immigrants coming from Haiti. They don't speak well, no education to get even a burger flipping job and they dress very different then most Idahoans. Yet they are told to get a job and learn to live a foreign lifestyle and we in Idaho are told to except it. I think we had our own population of humans that suffered from some of the same problems I listed.
Wonder why they're not shown how to live and maintain their own country.
I say Israel is probably more anti-bumming than anti-African!
Not all nations allow peaceful invasions of their nations, by unchecked immigration.
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