Friday, Mar 09, 2007
Shoot the lot of them!!
BBC News: Billionaire club membership jumps
"This growth in the billionaires list is a mere reflection of a dynamic global economy. More people are better off on this Earth than ever before," Mr Forbes said.
Posted by larry pickleman @ 10:58 AM (180 views) Add Comment
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1. george monsoon said...
"More people are better off on this Earth than ever before".. .... Yea right, Only because they have thieved the wealth away from everybody else.
Come on guys and girls, it must be time for us "have not"s to start petrol bombing the houses of the "have all"s and FORK! them all because they have stolen my right to make a home for my family. Im up for it BIG TIME.. anyone else in here man enough to put reason and logic on the shelf for a bit and actuallly force the issue out into the open? I want the maggots to suffer!!
2. Weycresto said...
I can't help but feel that if a Tory government had governed this way, we would be seeing "inequality riots" by now and orchestrated civil unrest by the Trade Unions, and Left Wing. I'm all for throwing out the "not resident for tax purposes." Glad to see this might get challenged in the Courts.
in the Courts.
3. larry pickleman said...
I'm there all the way...but then I grew up in a really scummy protestant area in west Belfast so protest's engraved on my skull!!...How I ever managed to end up in Brighton is anybodys guess...the landlord c**T get's 850 a month of me for nothing special!!
4. george monsoon said...
Durning my life, I have mingled with all manner of people, from all walks of life. ~BUT~ I have YET in all my 40 years on this earth to meet 1 self made wealthy person who is genuine, likable and honest. Bottom line, - if you want to be a rich **** then you have to be a downright evil selfish B****d!!
5. Chilli said...
Except for JK Rowling
As for protest - I'm sorry, but all I see is a bunch of people complaining on forums - where is the real activism?
The great thing about these people is that they got off their asses and did something. And.. the fact that Bill Gates and JK Rowling are on the list should give us all cause for hope. Granted Bill Gates wasn't exactly poor to start with, but these people are not blue bloods either.
6. inbreda said...
Billionaires, maybe, but it's monopoly money and you can't print it forever without experiencing consequences
7. bidin'matime said...
Well I'm glad to see you've not let it get to you...
8. george monsoon said...
bidin'matime - :O)
9. Andy said...
You start off with nothing, you get so many years (80, if your lucky) of time and you end up with nothing.
What did you do/or going to do with them years?
There are real billionaires out there, this web link doesn't list them.
10. Inflation Is Eating My Savings said...
The super rich always survive. Tsars and King's may die, but the Rothschilds will go on for ever.
Money also owns you, and true happiness can come (and is perhaps more likely) from a hand to mouth existence.
Chill out George- Spring is here!!!!!!
11. Andy said...
A prisioner spends his life counting the days, another kind of prisioner spends his life counting his money.
Even Warren Buffet got the fundamentals wrong.
12. bidin'matime said...
Andy - very true - the reason most of these people are so rich is that they get no satisfaction out of just sitting in the sun and being alive.
13. larry pickleman said...
Chilli said: "As for protest - I'm sorry, but all I see is a bunch of people complaining on forums - where is the real activism?"
You're so right Chilli, when I first moved to the mainland in 1994 I couldn't get over how submissive people were over here. In Northern Ireland whenever people got pis*ed off they really showed it. Mostly they sh*t in their own back gardens but at least the spirit of "who do you think you are" was alive and well. I've no idea what it would take to get this country going, I mean the anti-war stuff was ok but it got hijacked and at the end of the day made no difference at all....I think if any real threatening force does raise it's head it'll be a hybred from BNP side of things, maybe a BNP that supports working class ethnic minorities as well as working class whites....a new real labour kinda thing....at the moment it simply doesn't exist though...
14. harold said...
"Billionaire club membership jumps" - print lots of money and what do you expect? Typical good "news" story from the BBC that fails to analyse the creation of paper millionaires in any detail. Personally, I have nothing against creative entrepreneurs who improve their own lives and those of others through hard work. What p*sses me off is the City parasites who are exploiting the Central Banks' creation of money out of thin air - a process that creates inflation and robs hard working people, including creative entrepreneurs, of their labour.
15. inflation is eating my savings said...
>I mean the anti-war stuff was ok but it got hijacked
I'm glad someone else noticed this.
16. p. doff said...
GM. Your comments on self made wealthy people are a bit strong, and I think it unfair to generalise. There are many examples of hard working businessmen who have done well for themselves, and actually do the country a lot of good. For example, check out 'AESSEAL' on Google - a Rotherham based international company that started from nothing in the 80s. The Director Chris Rea (no relation) who started the company, is actually quite a nice chap, originally from Ireland. As with many if these types, making money is a secondary motive to the satisfaction of starting and developing a business. Good luck to them, I say. (It's quite a good website too)
17. monty said...
larry, larry, larry
Welcome to capitalism and equal opportuinity - you are quite obviously new to the concepts. I don't know how much of that is going on in NI - I've never been there and certainly don't plan on going either. That chip on your shoulder is so heavy you're walking in circles. I don't hear anyone on the Forbes list talking themselves up, it has far more to do with the media's and hence our obsession with them. I'm sure most of them would rather retire quietly to their offices and do what they like doing best, be that making money itself or making it as a side effect of what they do best.
The fact that most of the people on the rich list have made their own fortunes (Duke of Westminster excluded) doesn't seem to occur to you, does it? It's that little green eyed monster that takes over and makes you see red and makes you think that somehow you are being exploited by virtue of the fact that someone else is wealthier than you are. Sure, you can always take it by pointing a gun or pitchfork but what is to stop someone else from doing the same to you? It takes infinitely more intelligence to do it without stealing it, doesn't it?
Bill Gates has done sooo much more for Aids research than any world body, charity or government has in the last few years and now Buffet's fortune will join his. Good on them - I'll take any billionaire over a politician, especially one from Northern Ireland, the home of "he hit me first" politics.
18. The Capitalist said...
Please read "How to get rich" by Felix Dennis - very rich turned wine swilling poet and genuinely modest bloke. This book will show you that being rich does not make you happy, you will be pleased to hear, but thank God these people exist to risk their modest savings (and homes) to make the world a better place to live in. Governments don't innovate or invent or create - individuals do - if you are envious then go back to living in the stone age, get creative or join the communist party!
Anarchist Capitalists Unite!
19. japanese uncle said...
The world's most disgusting parasite, that's what Bill Gates is. No reasonably minded man can be happy to buy microsoft products, but just is forced to buy those rubbish, as Gates has only one big talent that is to destroy his competitors by whatever dirty means available, not by fair competition. Remember the war between BetaMax and VHS. By any standard, Beta was far superior to VHS, clearer picture, smaller cassette size, but Panasonic had a political acumen to get nearly all players on its side where mighty Sony had to fight against all the odds on its own. Mac vs Microsoft is exactly the same story.
Considering the quality of microsoft products, their price should have been slashed by 80% first of all. Then he could hardly have accumulated his current wealth. HE JUST STOLE MONEY FROM OUR POCKETS. That's why he is a billionare.
20. harold said...
JU, one word: Apple.
21. larry pickleman said...
Ha Monty, thanks for the wake up call....so this capitalism stuff, is it good?
22. Chilli said...
Actually when you think about it the Apple model is even more proprietary than Microsoft. They lock you in not only on software, but on hardware too. And that's a big part of the reason Apple produce such good stuff (I own a mac btw). And its a big part of the reason they have less problems with stability because they know the hardware involved, whereas microsoft don't. To play devil's advocate however; I see no reason to pay 170 quid or whatever for professional (which is the only flavour of windows worth buying) when microsoft are going to spend 80% of that on advertising (paranoia at its worst) when they don't even have any real competition. The cost of producing software is is nothing compared to how much microsoft makes by having its OS on just about every machine in the world. And when you compare the complexities involved in windows vs something like a computer game, you might be suprised to know a computer game is right up there. And small companies all over the world produce those. (I'm a programmer btw) The real cost of the operating system should be 5 quid or something. Economies of scale and all that.
23. japanese uncle said...
It's an education to learn well informed opinions here. We must support Linux, to kill Microsoft. Their profit is unjustifiable. No one respects their products. I strongly suggest Gates should climb up to the top of the Empire State Bldg. shut his eyes and jump. He will discover the new world.