Then let us call it third party ingratiation as it is showing up to the community here how one is on the side of the establishment and how one is the good guy while those not agreeing with this are the bad guys.
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Well first of all I dispute your use of the word ingratiating. You can only ingratiate yourself if the person you are ingratiating is aware of your ingratiating behavior.
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Anyone that has a money gain that is totally disproportionate to their amount of effort as opposed to anyone working hard and making the minimum wage or a reasonable amount above the minimum wage.
I'd like to add that, he who makes a lot of money, good for him. I am not opposing that. I only oppose he who is not even quenched by his huge amount of disproportionate money made, that he has to on top, make sure nobody among the little hard working people can dare and try to get a little more if they are smart enough to get it, as if saying: not only I must have way way more than the average guy, I also must make sure they don't have a little more, not even a tiny bit if they are smart enough to do so.
It's the syndrome of the guy that only enjoys his caviar if he knows the great majority can't afford it. If one day the majority for whatever reason can afford it then it does not taste so good anymore. And that is what is wrong and that is what I stand against.
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And I am curious as to what you mean by the elites. Anyone who is successful in life perhaps? Or has gained more success or money than you have though their effort or luck etc.?
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Depends what you do with it, if you say you wrote it then yes it would be wrong, if you sell it then yes it would be wrong as you'd be making money out of something you never put an effort to create. If you change words or chapters in it, you twist the author's vision without his permission.
But if all you do is read a copy of it, the author is still the author, he's still got the money he made off it and the fame if that's what his ego needs. But if he can't stand that someone does not pay him just cause that someone is smart enough to circumvent or bypass that then it's the caviar syndrome previously mentioned in this post.
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Regardless of the law if I had something someone else owned and did something with it against their wishes without their permission I would consider this unethical and sleazy behavior, whether it be copying a book, or using their grandmothers antique soup tureen as a chamberpot.
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