liveinabin1 said:
RealPaZZa said:
wembley8 said:
"We gave three poor families and three rich families the same amount of money. By the end of the first six months..."
chances are the rich families would win, as they already know how to invest wisely, coming from money generally comes with a better education (and chances are you know more useful people too!).
I sell glasses to people all day. It's always the well off that ask for discount or won't spend out on the extras. The poor people just pay up. If a rich person asks for discount I don't give any. If a poor person is nice and I can see they are struggling I give them discount without them asking.
I find that to be absolutely offensive. You punish people for being successful. How do you know how they got their money. Maybe they busted their ass everyday and pinched every penny just to make a better life for their later years and a better life for their kids.
I have read countless studies that show that the wealthy are more likely to use discounts and coupons, are more likely to buy fuel efficient cars and fill them with regular instead of premium.
I have no doubt in my mind that if the wealth was evenly distributed that most of the wealthy would become wealthy again and the poor would squander their money just as they do now.
If you want proof just look into the lottery effect. Winning the lottery is, at times, called a curse but that "curse" is just evidence of the difference in how money is handled. Who is most likely to play the lottery? The poor. So most of the people that win the lottery are poor and it shows up in the papers all the time that some past lottery winner is being charged with tax evasion or getting their house repoed because they blew all their money.
I grew up with a guy whose family were the town garbagemen. By the time he was 15 he was riding on the back of the truck collecting trash. He's 25 now and owns his own HVAC business and I would consider him wealthy (He bought his wife a Hummer). He worked his tail off to get where he is today and is more that deserving of his wealth.
And don't feed me that line about the rich getting more breaks and better education. In the UK as well as the US there are the best schools in the world and a just as equal chance to use them. Private school, public school it doesn't matter. If you don't sit in the back of the class text messaging like the kids nowadays do then you can get into college .