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The best of Carol Lay's work makes your skin crawl, as this one did for me.
I like how the contestant's head resembles a baby's :-)
to an absurd level. And we don't choose greed, it's built-in. It is only a matter of degrees, and the line between what constitutes greed and what constitutes a reasonable desire for survival is infinitesimally fine and for the most part, indiscernible. It is akin to the question how much money do you "need" to live a "good" life. Of course, Obama knows. It's $200,000.00, no matter where you live or what your circumstances are. Anything above that number is obviously a sign of greed, and must be confiscated.
A cartoon is an oversimplification? Wow, you really nailed that one, Sherlock, I mean Poco. Geez.
And Deal or No Deal was cancelled how long ago? Months of vacations and this was the big comeback idea?
Greed is innate in us all...
Which makes it totally okay when a Republican CEO making $50 million a year runs his company into the ground - and then lays off workers scraping by on $10 bucks an hour to protect his $100 M of stock options.
Yup - in the conservative world, greed is always justified...
And anyone who dare critize golden parachutes and ridiculous degrees of income inequality?
Why, they're trying to create class warfare! And, ummm, they must be socialists! Yeah, socialists!
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The ironic thing is the USA has completely proofed itself from true class warfare.
The conservative rich - those who constantly bitch about paying taxes on their "hard-earned" (i.e. sitting in a uber-comfortable ergonomic chair in front of a PC in a temperature controlled luxurious corner office all day long) money - will NEVER suffer their deserved fate at the hands of the "lazy, stupid" poor (i.e. those who do back-breaking, soul-crushing labor just to increase the worth of the CEO's stock).
And that is the saddest truth of all.
Doesn't mean the whole world needs to read your insufferable pseudo intellectual horseshit.
We can't tax the rich, or else they won't have enough money to pay us to do things for them.
Wow, this one really sucks you right in. You have no idea what's going on at the beginning yet at the end you're chanting....
GREED!
CZ