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Originally Posted by WritePR
Someone making minimum wage is not somehow superior to someone making $100,000 a year and vice versa.
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Some folks seem to think that anybody that makes good choices in life is by definition corrupt.
(shrug)
The whole 1%-99% percent crap is all about reassuring people on the wrong side of the global economic downturn that they are in no way shape or form responsible for how their life has turned out; it's all really the fault of the faceless "elites". With "elites" being anybody who studied a discipline that is still in actual demand, working in a growing industry, or creating products that actually add something to the sum total of human achievement/enjoyment.
Because it is, of course!, more virtuous to spend months camped out in public spaces ranting and raving than to actually go out and do something with your life. Like joining an NGO or helping out a local charity in all that free, government-subsidized, time.
And, of course, it is totally virtuous to undercut the efforts of an "elitist" author by giving away free copies of his brand-new effort, released *independently* of the giant multinational oligarchs that think they control publishing.
Somehow, the guy who is actually challenging the status quo, putting *his* money and reputation on the line to bypass the entrenched corporate monsters, somehow *he* is the heavy of this exercise?
He may or not be the jerk some think, but even anti-heroes deserve *some* respect. If you're going to rip the guy off, at least have the common sense to rip him off in the shadows with the rest of the cockroaches!
