Bought What’s Sold
You’re not getting rid of your fortune properly. Telling billionaires how to spend is the natural extension of thinking property belongs to everyone but the owner. A vaguely menacing lecture about just where money technically in the possession of others should go beats figuring how to profit themselves. Working hard to please consumers embodies decadence.
Sanctimonious pickpocketing is especially popular during the Elon Musk Twitter sweepstakes. Any acquisition for an unfathomable sum leads to pompous pontificating about how to fix whatever ill the lecturer last remembered being documented in a tweet. Barons could spend the purchase price to cure hunger for an afternoon. Or, they could pay workers and buy stuff from thankful retailers which could fund indefinite breakfasts.
Hearing how many orphans could go to college for free if a single tycoon disposed of a fortune in such a manner is the only time those who cheer trillions in federal spending have ever performed mathematics. Liberals cure society’s shortcomings by subtracting earnings. Pondering what happens after the one-time wealth transfer is for those who don’t want to live in the moment. Life may continue, just like the poverty caused by envy as policy.
Deciding what’s important is too important for you to decide. Eminent domain now applies to income. Incessantly ominous lectures about how executives ought to dispose of their earnings are a perversely logical extension of policies designed to seize fortunes so they can be spent properly by the entity that made college unaffordable by subsidizing it. Don’t bother majoring in economics.
Arsonists want to use the ashes to help you rebuild. Helpful liberals are deeply committed to alleviating agonies their beloved policies caused. Punishing success sure creates far less of it, if you can imagine.
The first step will only take them so far, so there’s no reason to even bother. Bitching that the richest won’t liquidate their fortunes is easier than helping at a soup kitchen. Scorn aimed at those who dare guide the most profitable outfits is why those endlessly waging class warfare never get there themselves. At least, that’s one reason. Acting like cash piles are assigned by fate is a convenient excuse for never bothering to try.
Plundering CEOs stole everything except a handful of change tossed our way, most of which fell down the sewer grate. Ingrates who don’t get raises because they’re too busy bitching how they’re underpaid.
Professional jealousy cultivators figure there’s no reason to even start helping. Existence being fixed is a convenient excuse. Very compassionate liberals expect those with more to not only lead the way but parade alone. Planning the route is a courtesy offered by those who don’t plan to come even close to tithing.
Life is unfair, which is an excuse used by some to not bother. If this is all a test to see how we react to stress, this universe is actually built pretty well. Taking it as a given that the game is stacked is why conspiratorial participants don’t play. The success of others is the easiest excuse for natural quitters.
Hand it over voluntarily before you must by law. Telling the richest how to be less so is nothing more than the liberal policy dream. Confiscating then spending undoubtedly spurs those who’ve had their personal coffers looted to refill them. Big dreamers just know what ghastly federal invasion into liberty and markets will make life dreamy as soon as they get a couple trillion bucks more in involuntary investments. A pyramid scheme only continues indefinitely by force of law.
It never occurs to mandatory sharers that increasing funding is not the panacea their faith compels them to believe. They’re forced to believe in force. Letting people trade with each other might be a more sustainable path to prosperity than chopping down the wealthy. I thought they were into recycling resources. Allowing competition lowers prices so we don’t need to seize fortunes. Removing barriers to thriving would create more rich people while we’re at it. But work sounds like a lot of effort.
Envy starts with giving in to other emotions, too. Enemies of free markets proclaim that there’s only so much money, a great deal which is being hoarded by those who lucked into running companies everyone uses voluntarily. Wealth is finite, according to financial experts who tried making everyone into an honorary tycoon by printing extra bills and tossing them around.
A system that allows people to help each other and even get paid for it only seems unobtainable for those who never create value. Pre-empting poverty is way more fun than addressing it once it happens. It’s better for firefighters to be bored reminding people to clean chimneys than to extinguish blazes. Demanding unbelievable taxation rates because they think everyone would refuse to help just like they do is a prominent way to compensate for wretchedness. Make sure to muster indignant attitude toward those who are not fixing problems they caused with their goofy beliefs.
Persistent resentment has not yet created prosperity. Spending fortunes at restaurants and car dealerships is the right of the cash possessor, not to mention the assistance received by servers and salesmen. Presuming fortunes earned by others theirs to spend takes a special kind of selflessness.
