Wealth is relative, not absolute. In a society of paupers, he who has two pennies is wealthy.
My point was, don’t drunks have the right to do as they please with their own fat wallet?
Hey. There are sober rock stars.
As far as I’m concerned, so long as they’re peaceful and honest, hell yeah! I haven’t gotten caught up in the wealth-envy thing in a very long time. I like celebrating the success of others. I like TV shows like Extreme Home Makover.
My mistake. I thought you implied Askeptic had an obligation to those who depend on him, when deciding how to blow Buffet’s fortune.
I take it that’s why he said he’d hire you.
No obligation. He simply decided they were of no value to him. What he said he wanted to do was basically cash out, divest himself, and party. That is quite often the sort of reply one gets when probing the intentions of those who envy the wealth and success of others.
Not sure I understand. What does askeptic’s reply have to do with “envy”? He’d just be doing what Paris Hilton (and countless other zillionairs) does…and whom, exactly, does she have to envy?
PS-Besides, by cashing-out and partying you might hurt some of employees who depend on you but OTOH, your cash will help a lot of people employed in the Party industry, e.g. everyone from a lowly parking attendant, to bartenders, disc-jockeys, club owners, and a long list of others.
He’d be simply funding a different field, that’s all.
Hey, I said I would set up a foundation to redistribute the excess, not a lot of zillionaires do that. Also liberal seems to think anyone with a social conscience has wealth envy. Don’t know why he has to be nasty, I said I would put him in charge of the foundation AND pay his taxes.
How can you pay my taxes? The money I get from you to pay them would be considered income and would itself be taxed. You’d have to overpay to the extent that what remains from your gift, after taxes, would equal the taxes I’ve paid on both my income and your gift. I’m no engineer, but it sounds like a perpetual motion machine to me.
If I am as rich as Warren Buffet I bet I could find a good tax attorney to work it out. I would pay for that to Lib, so you don’t have to worry about the details. You get me the zillions I will figure out the rest. Well, I will hire people to figure out the rest 'cause I will be partying like a rock star.
I can’t be bothered to actually work it out, so I’ll just tentatively point out that we could be dealing with a convergent series rather than a perpetual motion machine, here.
(/memories of trying to consider how much fuel a rocket needed, back when I was about twelve, and thinking 'but if you add the fuel, you’ll need MORE fuel to get that fuel up in the air, and then you’ll need EVEN MORE fuel to get the extra fuel up. This was some time before I did convergent series at school…)
I think you’d end up pretty much like this guy.
What nobody is realizing is that if he doesn’t spend the $37 billion in 30 days, he won’t inherit **$370 ** billion.
Let me worry about that. You just get me Warrens money I’ll take care of the rest. Besides you don’t know me from adam, I am already in the top tax bracket so apparently I can take care of the money I already have. In fact I am currently sitting on my deck in the foothills of California, drinking coffee thinking about maybe wandering down to my office around noon to put in a couple hours of work, or maybe not. Might meet a friend for some golf not sure yet. Maybe I will just sit here and fuck around with you. The point is I have the freedom to choose. You can leave out all the petty references to how little I have, I do fine.
If it ain’t envy, then what is it, lust?
You asked what I would do if I had Warren Buffet’s money, dumbass.
Right. And you said you would do magical and impossible things. Asshole.
I said I would:
1-Party like a (sober) rock star
2-Set up a foundation to redistribute the excess
3-Pay your taxes
4-Give money to Lekatt(for the fun of watching him try to prove NDE)
Which of those is impossible or magical?
Woe! Woe! All those wasted years, laboring under a delusion that I was concerned for justice and equality, when it was really nothing more than a craven and depraved envy for wealth! The scales fall from my eyes, and I am sore ashamed.
Lib, your luminous piety is an example to us all! No doubt, when Jesus talked about it being as difficult for a rich man to enter Heaven as a camel passing through a needle’s eye, he was bemoaning the needless size of camels and the meagre dimensions of needles eyes! A pity you were not at hand, to offer clarification.