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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
It isn't about wealth. Or jealousy or entitlement. It remains about opportunity. Case in point re: opportunity.
I heard an interesting take on the Facebook IPO. lots of people made lots of money yesterday, BUT (with the Painter and other exceptions) MOST who made a lot of money already HAD a lot of money to invest in the first place (i.e. Bono). Kudos to them for taking the risk, but unless you had 10's of millions to invest in the first place, the opportunity for, say me, to have invested a few 10's of K in it as a start up and then make a lot of money isn't there. It is tough to feel like the game isn't rigged to those who already have a lot of money to begin with....
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So the liberal eletist says, take all the money from everyone, divide it up and let everybody share in the IPO, or anything else, so everyone has the same.
Forget about the sacrafices,hard work, 60 hour weeks, being away from home
and family and the toal it takes to become sucessful.
Anybody can succeed in this country as the opportunities are here if you want
to work and sacrafice. What gives the right of the lazy to ride the backs of those
who worked and sacraficed all their lives, and where is the fairness with that?