The Suffering Billionaire

The United States is a very immoral place. We know that. We’ve known that for a long time. In fact, the United States is so immoral, that a majority of people can’t tell you why giving multi-national corporations billions of dollars is the right thing to do. Why? Because the people who run them are among the most moral people in the world and that needs to be rewarded.

In this uncertain world, there is one constant: that of the American Dream. If you are a good person with the self-discipline to be moral, you also must have the self-discipline to be wealthy. That’s a fact. If you’re not, then you are by definition doing something wrong. It’s like a math problem. If you add three and two and get four, then you have forgotten something. You haven’t done something. You’ve done something wrong. You’re either too lazy or too stupid (or both) to be rich.

That’s why there are classes of people in the world. The second biggest mistake people make when they think of social class is they are man-made. They’re not. They exist as a force of nature the same way a hurricane does. The biggest mistake people make when they think of social class is that they can be ‘fixed’ by man. How many times have we heard it? There’s a woman down the street, her husband just up and left her with three kids (let’s forget about the fact that she probably should have waited a little longer to get married and probably would have found out he was going to leave).If we just give her a few dollars, she might be able to afford child care, go back to school, get a good job, and get off welfare. Sounds good. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? Ok, let’s just say that happens. Let’s say she does go back to school. Let’s say she does get off welfare. It won’t matter. It’s a waste. She hasn’t learned the self-discipline – the morality – to hang on to it. Sooner or later she’s going to be right back where she was and probably worse off because we have crushed her dreams. And she will have taken a job away from someone who truly deserves it. Someone who is moral enough to have it.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like that people are poor. I don’t like that they suffer any more than a parent likes when their children are disobedient and must be spanked. A parent gets no joy out of spanking their child, but it is the only way they will learn to be good, moral, self-disciplined people.

The wealthiest one hundred sixty families in the United States has an average wealth of seventy-two million dollars. That means in an average family of four, each person could live on a hundred eighty thousand dollars a year…for the next one hundred years without doing another thing. It’d be pretty tempting, wouldn’t it? You could live pretty comfortable on a hundred eighty thousand dollars a year. Especially if it meant you never had to work again. Most people would take it if given the chance. But what do they do? They invest it. They start businesses. They create jobs. And why? For the money? Please, they already have money. They do it so the immoral…the people who, really, don’t deserve it…can have a chance to become moral. Maybe even join them in the ranks of the most moral. And how does the government repay this selfless act of kindness? Like Christ to the cross, they are punished. With taxes. With fees. With fines. The government even goes so far as to tell them how much they have to pay these people, forgetting that they didn’t have to give them a job in the first place. They could have sat back and just spent their money. Imagine that. Then who would create the jobs? Oh, but it’s justified. We’ve all heard it. “The more you make the more you pay in.” Does that make any sense to you? In this country we are so immoral – we steal more from those who are the most moral. What’s next? Having to pay a fine to help an old lady across the street?

Then you get people who whine, “but what about people who inherited their wealth?” It wouldn’t matter, they are taught by their parents to be moral. You could tax Paris Hilton’s inheritance at a 100% and by the end of her lifetime, she would be back to where she was. She’d find a job flipping burgers somewhere and she will inevitably end up owning the place. Why? She’s been taught morality. She has the self-discipline to be wealthy. By eliminating the inheritance tax, we’re just cutting out the middle man. Let her keep her money, create more jobs, and make more money. Oh, not for herself, no, for her children. That way they will have even more money to create even more jobs.

The only reason families lose their wealth in a few generations is because of the meddling of the government. Unfortunately, that’s not going to change because there are always going to be more immoral people in this world than moral and they are always going to feel their immorality “entitles” them to a “living wage”.

 

You think if we give Paris Hilton another tax cut....she'll use the money to open up an electronics factory in Tennessee and create 1000 new jobs?


and not spend it on jewelry in Switzerland or buying a beachfront house in Aruba?

 

This is meant as satire.

 

Sorry, so was my answer. Engaged in a "Trump Fail"....I was being sarcastic, but wasn't clear enough.

 

Actually, she's a bad example for you to use. She has used her money to start business ventures, not simply being a parasite. Her perfume business has brought in $1.5 billion gross, so she's employing people..... if only in retail sales.

 

...and HR, marketing exec, sales exec, operational exec, accountants, lawyers, consultants and contractors, labor, packaging, etc. etc. etc.

It was a good point other than the last part though.

To the topic? Ah, there is no topic, certainly not a current event, no linked article... also inane and vapid. Reported.

 

had me there for a moment. If only there was a satire font.

 

You think if we gave devout socialist Bernie Sanders another round of donations he'd use it to pay for a few college tuitions or cover somebody's healthcare bills?

...and not just spend it on a 4th summer home?

 

I'm sure she's employing people. Sure. Got proof she is? Inane and vapid is right, dasein.

 

I figured this satirical piece would hit a little too close to home for you.

 

Nope, post bilge like this OP in the right section to your heart's content and I'd have no problem with it, inane as it is. It's -not- by any stretch a current event. You didn't include a linked article and your title doesn't conform to any linked article. Those are all very clear forum rules concerning the current events section that a child could understand. Sorry that basic understanding eludes you.

 

Or one has been deprived of justice like I have.





And there was something very immoral about what the sheriffs dept judge and county counsel did.

What they did was enable the secrecy used for mass murder and treason, while depriving state citizens of effective mental health care causing tragic suffering and death.

In your position, what is the moral thing to do?

 

I am not sure I understand what you are getting at...this was a satirical piece meant to cast a light on the thinking of many on the far right.

 

Hmm, a bit too real for satire and I missed the partisan aspect.
After what I've lost, I still work for what is moral, our right to alter or abolish which will purify partisan politics.

What is the moral thing to do?