Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

[GreatestIam]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

You thought they had these instincts?

It is demonstrable that we are all born with then. They are a part of our selfish gene.

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DL

 

[GreatestIam]

The topic starting sentence is anti-semitic, since because of 911, Jews now control about 80% of US wealth, and have 8 out of the top 10 wealthiest.

So if you think the wealthy today aren't wonderful, you are just a blah blah blah anti semite.....

Your stats, and thinking, are garbage.

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DL

 

[GreatestIam]

I thought welfare was supposed to take care of this problem.

Exactly.

Fifty years and $20 trillion of confiscation and redistribution later, and we're told that poverty, hunger, homelessness, and the "distribution of wealth" are worse than ever....And that's somehow the fault of the wealthy?!?

Look at the graph in the O.P. for the first time and tell us again that it is the fault of the have nots.

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DL

 

[Crepitus]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

Did the rich and powerful ever have an altruistic instinct?

 

[GreatestIam]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

It was not there to lose in the first place. In the past the 'rich and powerful" took care of the peasants to keep them from forming a mob and taking over, not out of some need to do good.

Regardless of the motivation, it was a better way than our present way.

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DL

 

[Oddball]

Quit watching after 10 seconds....Wealth is earned, not distributed....The wealthy deprive nobody of anything by being wealthy.

More divide-and-conquer BS.

Thanks for showing what a dead brain looks like.

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DL

Thanks for showing what a non-argument looks like.

 

[GreatestIam]

It was called noblesse oblige. The idea that the rich were blessed and obliged to care for the poor.

If you look at the grand charities, the hospitals, research foundations, they are all supported by the rich. The poor, on the other hand, stopped giving thanks to the Almighty whose demands the rich were honoring. The poor gained a sense of supreme entitlement. They became even more creatively poor.

The rich still support the City of Hope, Cancer centers, the Crippled Children's foundation. For the rest, the poor get paid to be poor by getting paid from the taxes. They simply want a raise for doing nothing except bitching about how they want more.

Only those who do not look, will not see how little we actually care and the health stats for the poor show it.

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DL

 

[GreatestIam]

Quit watching after 10 seconds....Wealth is earned, not distributed....The wealthy deprive nobody of anything by being wealthy.

More divide-and-conquer BS.

Thanks for showing what a dead brain looks like.

Regards
DL

Thanks for showing what a non-argument looks like.

Why should I waste my time on a fool?

If others are foolish enough to believe you, there is nothing I can say to move them.

If you will take the time for this link, then take it as it refutes your idea of people earning their wealth. It speaks of inheritance.



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DL

 

[Oddball]

Look at the graph in the O.P. for the first time and tell us again that it is the fault of the have nots.

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DL

How does the wealthy person make anyone else poorer by being wealthy?

 

[Oddball]

Why should I waste my time on a fool?

If others are foolish enough to believe you, there is nothing I can say to move them.

Regards
DL

So all you have is name calling?...I have one for you too: Loser.

 

[GreatestIam]

Why should I waste my time on a fool?

If others are foolish enough to believe you, there is nothing I can say to move them.

Regards
DL

So all you have is name calling?...I have one for you too: Loser.

I redid my answer, but if you think yourself the winner then you are truly a loser.

Regards
DL

 

[GreatestIam]

Look at the graph in the O.P. for the first time and tell us again that it is the fault of the have nots.

Regards
DL

How does the wealthy person make anyone else poorer by being wealthy?

The only way to acquire great wealth is to take advantage of markets and labor.

The more the wealthy take from production and the work force/labor, the less the poor have.

Regards
DL

 

[Oddball]

The only way to acquire great wealth is to take advantage of markets and labor.

The more the wealthy take from production and the work force/labor, the less the poor have.

Regards
DL

Oh, so you're a Marxist.

Dismissed....Thanks for playing.

 

[GreatestIam]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

Did the rich and powerful ever have an altruistic instinct?

Yes as it has been proven by science that we are all born with it as a part of our selfish gene.

Regards
DL

 

[Oddball]

I redid my answer, but if you think yourself the winner then you are truly a loser.

Regards
DL

Too late, commie loser.

 

[GreatestIam]

The only way to acquire great wealth is to take advantage of markets and labor.

The more the wealthy take from production and the work force/labor, the less the poor have.

Regards
DL

Oh, so you're a Marxist.

Dismissed....Thanks for playing.

I wasn't sure of your intent but now I see that my initial thinking of your idiotic thinking was correct.

I thank you for that great argument. We are done.

Regards
DL

 

[Oddball]

I wasn't sure of your intent but now I see that my initial thinking of your idiotic thinking was correct.

I thank you for that great argument. We are done.

Regards
DL

Only commies buy into that "theft of labor" crap.

You can tell the man who boozes by the friends he chooses.

 

[GreatestIam]

We have a situation where almost half of all Americans pay nothing in taxes, and the other half pays taxes to support people who don't work. What more do you want?

I want to redress what the graph in the O.P. shows and that would take fixing the tax system you are cursing.

Regards
DL

 

[GreatestIam]

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact.

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

It depends on the individual what they want to do with their cash. In my home town we had two Carnegie funded libraries But we also had squalor and hunger whilst local grandees lived off the fat of the land.
The great win for the rich is to persuade enough poor people to back policies that only benefit the rich.

They do not need to persuade the poor when they have the legislators in their pocket.

20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn't care what you think.

Regards
DL

 

[Oddball]

I wasn't sure of your intent but now I see that my initial thinking of your idiotic thinking was correct.

I thank you for that great argument. We are done.

Regards
DL

 

[GreatestIam]

Humans are not an altruistic species. The reason we have thrived is due to the people who have acted in their own rational self-interest. The ones who promote altruism as being good intend to enslave the ones who are productive.

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.” - R.A. Heinlein

We are not altruistic to you, even though science and our history show the opposite. Ok.



Regards
DL