sparaig wrote: >--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>new_morning_blank_slate wrote: >> >> >> >>>--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>History shows that not to be true at all. Most are just greedy >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>bastards >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>who care little about their fellow humanity. People like Bill Gates >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>are >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>a rare exception >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Well 280 billion annually in american philanthropy sort of deflates >>>your thesis. (Or are you concerned about the miserliness of Europeans >>>-- who have lower levels of philanthropy?) >>> >>>Sure I would love to see american philanthropy at a trillion or 10 >>>trillion a year. European and Asian philanthropy matching such. It can >>>happen. It requires a change of ethos. A softening of world >>>consciousness if you will. Its "progressively" happening. >>> >>>What will stop such in its tracks is confisgatory tax rates of 95-100% >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>You still don't get that a progressive tax means people won't try to >>>>earn another dime if they are going to pay more in taxes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I get it. And I think you You are dead wrong. Many such people will >>>spend every waking hour on how to shelter income. Very unproductive >>>for society to have many of its better minds engaged in such. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks for proving my point. Anyone who would spend their time doing >>that is mentally imbalanced. They are more in need of a psychiatrist >>than a financial adviser. You must have missed my point about Gates >>being like Hurley on "Lost." Hurley in the series is the unlikely young >>kid who happened to win the lottery and worth millions. Since he knew >>he was no expert on money he has financial manager taking care of his >>investments. In a flashback episode they show him meeting with the >>manager and learning of companies he didn't know he owned. >> >> >> > >Interesting thing to say about Gates. His stated goal in life for several >decades was to >become the richest man in the world... > The founder of the company I used to work for stated in his high school yearbook that his goal in life was to be a millionaire. He made it. It also interesting to note he was born one month earlier than Gates with the same rising sign. I once told him that now that he was wealthy he would turn into a Republican. You should have seen the look he gave me. :)
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