No, I mean it Saul. I've said before that you'd need to spend about 37,000 every day, 7 days a week, for 75 years to deplete a non-interest pile of one billion dollars. Now, some folks have dozens of billions. They can't spend it in a lifetime. The only way to spend so much is to outfit an army and force a personal view onto others. Historically, that's what has happened over and over. Why do we assume that the next generations of today's contented billionaires will be equally placid? The ancient Roman politicians figured that a highly trained force of 100,000 elite, best armed palace guards can effectively suppress a population of millions. That may still be true. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, August 24, 2012 4:39:48 AM Subject: Re: Subjective - Objective On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:54 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, I'm inclined to go with Saul on this. While there is never a solid > guarantee that some people will be forever excluded from opportunity to > improve > their lots by their own efforts, it's evident that it is indeed the case > just as > it's the case that some with privilege and wealth will never lose it by > their > own foolishness. (When you have billions of dollars, as many do nowadays, > even > a dedicated profligacy couldn't drain it all). > > Wanna bet?: - Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. Lionel Stander
