Why Are the 1% Such Crybabies?

[GoLeft TV]

From Ring of Fire:

It’s rare to find such a transparent and obvious example of navel-gazing as was recently offered by the wealthy and affluent Tom Perkins. In a recent letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal, Perkins compared the plight of the 1% to the slippery slope that led to the holocaust in Nazi Germany.

That’s not hyperbole.

Perkins compared the recent outrage displayed during the Occupy movement and the response to Google’s private busing of employees to the Kristallnacht – a night of brutality and violence against Jews that occurred before World War II. He has since apologized for his use of the term Kristallnacht but he has not recanted his point that the 1% face unfair and potentially dangerous scrutiny.

You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.

[unblock]

1. when you feel unheard, there's a tendency to exaggerate your point.

this is seen in household arguments all the time.

at the unblock household, we clamp that down with "i've told you a million times not to exaggerate!"


of course, one of the primary reasons for feeling unheard is because you're dead wrong.



poor, poor billionaires. no one outside of fauxnews seems to care how persecuted they really are. not being allowed to pollute any river they care to buy industrial property near and all that. they didn't let the jews pollute rivers near auschwitz, either....

[global1]

2. It Must Be Difficult To Have Lots Of Money.....

always worried about who to trust and who might be looking to take it from you.

Just think - these 1%er's could simplify their lives and be happy if they didn't have all that money to worry about.

Maybe we should tell them how good it is on this side of all that money. Let them in on the fact that we're secretly happy.

On second thought - I don't know if I'd like them to share in our happy world. (sarcasm)

[bemildred]

3. Well, obviously, they are very needy people.

Immature, thin-skinned, and with a profound sense of their own entitlement.

[aquart]

4. Lack of sympathy for their guillotine nightmares?

[ChazInAz]

6. Ready the tumbrels!

They've probably come to the gut-sinking realization that they can only hold out for a short time in their "high security", gated communities. Just how bribeable IS a mercenary security force? How many entrances are there? How hardened IS that panic room? How fast will the national guard be?

[jeff47]

5. Because they've done nothing.

A mother can point to the children she's raised.
A woodworker can point to the furniture he's built.
A programmer can point to the software she's written.
A farmer can point to the crops he's grown.
A steelworker can point to the skyscraper she's built.
An Author can point to the books he's written.

A 1%er can point to nothing as an accomplishment. Because all they've done is destruction and syphoning off the works of others. And they're terribly worried that we will figure out we do not need them.

[nxylas]

7. I think you're crediting them with too much self-awareness

Your average 1%er has been told since birth that he (or occasionally she) is better than other people, that he deserves everything that belongs to him by virtue of his sheer hard work (not like those takers) and, through the fiction of Ayn Rand, that society would collapse without "entrepreneurs" like him.

[Nitram]

8. Because they were born with...

...platinum spoons in their mouths.

[Doctor_J]

9. That's the main difference between the US and the civilized nations IMO

All countries have rich and poor. The differences here are

1. Here the rich are WAY richer than the poor
2. The rich here constantly bitch about their lot in life.

[whathehell]

11. Insults and Ignorance ride again...You really should get out more..

or at least brush up on your reading, as anyone who has ever heard the names of Rupert Murdoch

or Dominique Strauss-Kahn would know the rich outside the US are as noxious and damaging to

public (and sometimes private) life as those in the US.

2. If you feel the US is "uncivilized", do feel free to leave -- There are many waiting to take your place.

[Brigid]

10. Their money shelters them.

It shelters them from just about all the vagaries of life that the rest of us deal with every day as a matter of course. They have no idea what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, or to worry about how they're going to feed their kids, or worry about how they're going pay the electric bill before the electric company cuts off the lights. They don't have to deal with dangerous working conditions. If a serious illness strikes, at least they can afford treatment to give them the best chance. Everyone defers to them. Little touches them. The rest of us, not so much.