Economic Suicides Megathread

[floridaorange]

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the stingiest people I know, and I mean add water to the empty ketchup bottle and shake it up to get the last watered down bit out stingy, are also the wealthiest people I know personally (by wealthy i mean $100's of millions in the bank)

anyway, food for thought.

[Miroslav]

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the stingiest people I know, and I mean add water to the empty ketchup bottle and shake it up to get the last watered down bit out stingy, are also the wealthiest people I know personally (by wealthy i mean $100's of millions in the bank)

anyway, food for thought.

the wealthy people I've known have their own jets.

[floridaorange]

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you've known? they may not have owned them (or maybe they did)

My post was more along the lines of our grandparents generation. You know very modest, like Warren Buffet, living in a small home, not flashy. Stingy was the wrong word.

[Kamal]

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Ahm, ahm...the first one

Party at Shpira's

[Shpira]

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Well I personally am not a millionaire but in property my close family owns more than a couple of million thats for sure...over time it accumulated. Thats what I mean by investing rather than spending on luxuries...my family would have had even more but when the communists came to power in Serbia they confiscated a lot of the art work, land and other valuable property. So my familly lost a hotel and about 30 paintings by famous artists which are now in museums...we also lost about 5 square miles of land which is now a town...so there is little hope of claiming it back.

[speciale]

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Well I personally am not a millionaire but in property my close family owns more than a couple of million thats for sure...over time it accumulated. Thats what I mean by investing rather than spending on luxuries...my family would have had even more but when the communists came to power in Serbia they confiscated a lot of the art work, land and other valuable property. So my familly lost a hotel and about 30 paintings by famous artists which are now in museums...we also lost about 5 square miles of land which is now a town...so there is little hope of claiming it back.

never would have thought that since most of your posts are anticapitalism

[Shpira]

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That has nothing to do with it...my political convictions are completely unrelated to personal gain. I think what I think because I believe it to be right not because I would benefit from it.

Although it often makes me wonder about the viability of my political convictions. If I had it my way I would loose out and I am prepared to give up what I have for the benefit of society yet those who have less and would stand to gain are IMO too narrow minded to see that they are in fact slaves to capital. It is a paradox of our society.
That often makes me wonder do I really want to place myself in a position to fight for those who do not want my help and will not appreciate it? Furthermore I am very cynical about any prospects of change since I believe that the so called "human nature" (which IMO is a by product of the society we live in) is not at all in line with my political convictions.

So I will probably become a part of the problem rather than a part of the solution...accumulating wealth through the elitist system which I am born into i.e. through my friends which I made in private schools and family acquaintances who have a simmilar financial status to me and my family. I am not a happy bunny but I see no real change on the horizon.

[Shpira]

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Anyway this is not here or there...this thread is about economic suicides and while my family's businesses are experiencing difficulties I doubt anyone will kill themselves any time soon.

[AchtungBaby!]

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Is a little bit sad read this thread but fellas, here in Argentina this kind of economics disasters happens every 10 years.. Believe it or not, things will be better soon.. The entire world depends on your beatifull country