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A note of appreciation from the rich

  • 19-08-2010 10:36AM
    #1
    WildBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭WildBoots


    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
    [/FONT][/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.

    On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it — you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!

    As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.

    Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us — and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.

    Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!

    You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."

    Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening — instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "****," "Jews," Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.

    We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!

    Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system — robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.

    So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" — without even knowing it!     [/FONT][/FONT]


Comments

  • #2
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    smells like teen communist


  • #3
    eightyfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    Why don't you link to sites you copy and paste from?


  • #4
    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY


  • #5
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    WildBoots wrote: »


    On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life.
    I work at a creative job I really enjoy. So your theory falls apart right there. But thanks for the input, shut the door on your way out.


  • #6
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    So?

    Did you buy the toaster in the end?


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  • #7
    WildBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭WildBoots


    eightyfish wrote: »
    Why don't you link to sites you copy and paste from?

    Because I didn't get it from there.


  • #8
    WildBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭WildBoots


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    I work at a creative job I really enjoy. So your theory falls apart right there. But thanks for the input, shut the door on your way out.


    Well then you are lucky. Read it again and you'll discover the words "chances are", as in the majority of people.


  • #9
    Esther Round Wildflower
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Esther Round Wildflower


    Couldn't you at least have replaced America with Ireland and make it look like you put in any effort...?


  • #10
    eightyfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    WildBoots wrote: »
    Because I didn't get it from there.

    Oh it must have been one of these then.


  • #11
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    eightyfish wrote: »
    Why don't you link to sites you copy and paste from?

    Pfffffffffffffffft hahahahahahahahaha, scarleh for deh OP WHA!?


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  • #12
    WildBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭WildBoots


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Couldn't you at least have replaced America with Ireland and make it look like you put in any effort...?

    I didn't think it mattered tbh, the message is the same regardless.


  • #13
    WildBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭WildBoots


    eightyfish wrote: »
    Oh it must have been one of these then.

    No, it was from an email. And then I posted it on boards. Amazing eh?


  • #14
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    What a load of tripe!


  • #15
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    i didn't realise till now how useless and exploited my life has become - thank you

    excuse me while i jump off the 4th floor balcony


  • #16
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Couldn't you at least have replaced America with Ireland and make it look like you put in any effort...?

    And "Yellow Pages" with "Golden Pages".


  • #17
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    I won the lottery. Therefore the rest of your post is meaningless.

    WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW??!


  • #18
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    The rich use too many quotation marks when denoting irony. I guess that comes from living a life of excess.


  • #19
    AAAAAAAHHH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭AAAAAAAHHH


    WildBoots wrote: »
    No, it was from an email. And then I posted it on boards. Amazing eh?

    Do you have any emails from Bill Gates that I can forward on to people to make money?


  • #20
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    WildBoots wrote: »
    No, it was from an email. And then I posted it on boards. Amazing eh?

    Remember the good old days when somebody got a crappy email they could only send it on to people they knew.


  • #21
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    I outright refuse to read that post until you edit it so the font conforms to the societal norm.


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  • #22
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    thebigbiffo wrote: »
    i didn't realise till now how useless and exploited my life has become - thank you

    excuse me while i jump off the 4th floor balcony

    Ooh, look at you with your balcony-you must be one of the rich ones :pac:


  • #23
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    thebigbiffo wrote: »
    i didn't realise till now how useless and exploited my life has become - thank you

    excuse me while i jump off the 4th floor balcony

    Pah peasant. The guys on Wall Street wouldn't even dream of jumping off something so pathetically close to the ground.


  • #24
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,351 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    WildBoots wrote: »
    No, it was from an email. And then I posted it on boards. Amazing eh?

    Amazing? No. Boring and tedious? Oh yes.


  • #25
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    That could be a letter from the West (ie, all of us) to the people of the developing countries tbh.

    We need a third world to help keep us in affordable luxry goods. Imagine how much a pair of Nike, reebok or Adidas runners would be if they were made in Paris, London or Dublin.


  • #26
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    That could be a letter from the West (ie, all of us) to the people of the developing countries tbh.

    We need a third world to help keep us in affordable luxry goods. Imagine how much a pair of Nike, reebok or Adidas runners would be if they were made in Paris, London or Dublin.

    This is why I scoff at liberal Western ideals of trying to develop the 3rd world countries and help them control birth rates. The pyramid only works if you have lots of poor people at the bottom of it serving the privileged few above.


  • #27
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    ...and in big font too! You must be really serious about this topic.

    Personally I think you should set up your own blog somewhere where you can post all the other topics your serious about. At lease that way we can all ignore your unoriginal Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v tripe.


  • #28
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    We need a third world to help keep us in affordable luxry goods. Imagine how much a pair of Nike, reebok or Adidas runners would be if they were made in Paris, London or Dublin.

    Sure why would anyone want to bother with them foreign brands when we have these.


  • #29
    WildBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭WildBoots


    AAAAAAAHHH wrote: »
    Do you have any emails from Bill Gates that I can forward on to people to make money?

    No, but I have a spare box of bathroom tiles if they are any good to you.


  • #30
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Ooh, look at you with your balcony-you must be one of the rich ones :pac:

    all the better to look down on you with
    sock puppet wrote: »
    Pah peasant. The guys on Wall Street wouldn't even dream of jumping off something so pathetically close to the ground.

    i live in a period residence :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    Procasinator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    Well, it's good to know we're appreciated.


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