wealth

>
>Good for them who succeed! They are smart, they played the game, and won.
>As
>long as they do no harm to others, more power to them!

good luck. I'm pretty darn poor right now, but of course, rich as
anything compoared to most of the world. . . and I'm sure I could find
hundreds of ways in which my life is destroying the lives of others.

>
>Wealthy people often have the means and power to contibute to the
>betterment
>of humanity.

. . . .but often don't. I think history is beginning to show, if it
hasn't already, that private charity is not enough. It's innefficient.
That's why the New Deal was necessary . . .Andrew Carnegie and
rockefeller's oh so noble and magnanmous generosity was not enough.

(not to mention, what's so great about paying someone $60 a month, and
then throwing some charitible bone to them later on?)

I heard about some extremely rich friends of some friends of ours. . .
while my girlfriend gave $50 for the tsunami disaster, which she
can't really afford, these skanks, to whom $1000 would be nothing,
hadn't given a thing. they hadn't even thought of it.