I guess I’m talking about actually successful people, not the middle class who worked some corporate job for 50 years and put all their money into the stock market and now think they are sooo smart and retired on their dividends and social security and paper millions in the banks.
Sure that all means something. You can conform to the system, work soulless jobs keeping the system going, and then narcissistically claim your success = your material luxuries in old age. That’s not really what I was getting at with the whole success thing, although if you compare that upper middle class boomerism thing to the average lower class burger king worker who has nothing and is actually poor… yeah, maybe I still have a point. Albeit one I am not really interested in defending in those particular cases.
My overall point remains the same, and I don’t care about sellout boomer middle classers who whine about the hard wood floors in their house isn’t quite as nice as it should be. I am trying to make a much broader point here.
Considering that I gave you several examples of how success can be diverse, with variable outcomes depending on the starting point, I’d say that I am completely conversant with what success can be.
But you seem to be obsessed with one idea of what success is:
But then again, you might just be some obnoxious asshole who objects to the conversation I was having with Peter Kropotkin, and needed to interject to spread your limited vision as the ultimate wisdom.
As I said before, you don’t even know that you don’t know many things. You think you are the ultimate source of cleverness and intelligence, but in reality, you have a blinkered view of society, a tunnel view focussed on wealth, and you scorn any idea of modest existence.
Today, some 4.3 billion people – more than 60 per cent of the world’s population – live in debilitating poverty, struggling to survive on less than the equivalent of $5 per day. Half do not have access to enough food. And these numbers have been growing steadily over the past few decades. Meanwhile, the wealth of the very richest is piling up to levels unprecedented in human history. As I write this, it has just been announced that the eight richest men in the world have as much wealth between them as the poorest half of the world’s population combined.
We can trace out the shape of global inequality by looking at the distribution of income and wealth among individuals, as most analysts have done. But we can get an even clearer picture by looking at the divide between different regions of the world. In 2000, Americans enjoyed an average income roughly nine times higher than their counterparts in Latin America, twenty-one times higher than people in the Middle East and North Africa, fifty-two times higher than sub-Saharan Africans and no less than seventy-three times higher than South Asians. And here, too, the numbers have been getting worse: the gap between the real per capita incomes of the global North and the global South has roughly tripled in size since 1960.
Hickel, Jason (2017-05-03T23:58:59.000). The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions . Random House. Kindle Edition.
@Bob
You indeed raised burning issue which concerns every right thinking person irrespective of his Region or country of residence . Well there is a belief that the Nordic countries are doing very well in this regard especially with equitable distribution of wealth . If we travel back in to pre-historic times, the concept of poverty was perhaps not there . Possibly it had its advent in early civilizational peaks .
What do you view as indicative of “success”? Is “success” accomplishing any goal or is “success” the accomplishing of worthy goals? And if it is the latter, what would you deem to be a typical example of a “worthy” goal?
Thanks very much for taking firm grip of the low hanging fruit, and rather demonstrating by what you deliberately choose not to respond to whatsoever, where your true errors lie.
Let’s say we never speak again. Fair? Best life to you then, you lazy and overly silly cunt.
Once more you are so wrong on everything you say in this verbal abuse, that it seems you make a habit of being wrong. I wish you well, but obviously also enlightenment.