Originally posted by mikemike If you focus on happiness, as Kanye says, "money isn't everything; not having it is." I wouldn't be surprised if there were an equal number of happy people in the top 1% and the bottom 1%.
Well, that's one reason I *don't* envy the 'one percent,' they don't seem particularly happy, even when trying to grab more and more.
Of course, if I became accidentally-wealthy, I might be more useful to the world as a well-off eccentric than struggling not to fall off the bottom of the economic ladder: *Not* having enough money does just limit the things one can accomplish in life. and you become aware of that when you really don't stand much chance of competing: this is something that more and more people have been finding out as the wealth-stratification gets worse year by year: I sure know from personal experience that sometimes it's the most-frustrating thing to be *almost* making it, *almost* viable in the world, and on and on, only to find the 'what the market will bear' squeeze is just nickel-and-diming your prospects to pieces. One more fee, one more regressive tax, one more price hike, one more closed shop or market or lost customer, even... one more service that helps make the difference, ...meanwhile, of course, at the top it's back to record increases in profits every year while they demand *more* advantages and claim only then can they *do* anything to reverse their own job-killing actions.
Of course, adding insult to injury isn't going to improve anyone's feelings about that, never mind their real situations.
And, yeah, accusing *others* of 'class warfare' is just that Roveian way of accusing any opposition of what you're doing, *yourself.* This *is* a war on the middle and lower classes, and they've been pursuing it a long time, ...This hostile backwards-moralistic-rhetoric attacking people's *character* only illustrates it.