eg, when ppl think of ppl trying for a free ride, getting paid even if they dont work, they think of the poor, ppl on welfare, but NEVER of the superrich, who CANT have earned so much, who MUST be overpaid - eg, a nobelprizewinning economist can say there is no free lunch, when the highest AVERAGE pay [increase of fortune] /hr is US$500,000 - with peaks up to $10,000,000 - eg, ppl can say seriously that the rich make their money by hard work, when no one can work more than twice as hard as the average person, & yet incomes [increase of fortune]/workhr go up to A MILLION TIMES average - superextraordinary - superodd - super hard to explain -
the poor man gets at most ONE unemployment benefit, the rich man gets up to 3 million unemployment benefits [assuming the unemployment benefit is a third of average hrly pay] - and yet ppl dont have an atom of indignation or contempt or hatred for this, and yet have sometimes considerable animus against the poor person getting one unemplymnt ben.
2006-10-14
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