A greedy, jealous and highly stupid populace

How come so many really hate rich people? Well, they don’t even need to be rich; they can be bank managers or just having a nice car. Somehow this upset people more than people in refugee camps or the starving masses in North Korea. It seems like peoples favorite pastime is to read about how rich their neighbors are and then trash them together with good friends and a nice chardonnay. I would understand this if those who were rich actually did things that were bad for others, like robbing the elderly, printing monopoly money to shield people from the financial crisis they have created, imposing laws concerning who you can and cannot get married to or if they forced young men to enlist in the armed forces. But that’s governments little things and we all love governments.

The last time I was at a larger political gathering it cost the taxpayers 11 million kronor. We dined, laughed, got drunk and slept at a great hotel for money stolen from single mums and the handicapped, but no one claimed that we were greedy or didn’t think about our members (shareholders). And this goes on all the time, politicians feasting and living on the money they have snatched from the pockets of those around them. And most high ranked politicians earns even more than the average bank manager, but people mostly ignore that, even if politicians never contributes to society in any other way then being a burden. Instead everyone jumps at every opportunity to hate those horrible bank people that choice to have meetings at a hotel, which never ever happen before in history. No company or organization has ever had meetings other that at shabby diners were they pay for their own food. And getting a higher salary for actually contributing to society is horrible. How could they? And eagerly throwing gasoline at this fire is those useful idiots, the journalists. Carefully they select words and put their “reporting” in a context in order to highlight the self-indulgence of bank people. Everything designed to get an easily duped populace to react in horror and even to do outbursts like changing banks. And cashing in on the horrified citizens the journalists keep throwing more “news” out there to increase the notion of general greed among all people with responsibilities. And the politicians, that really is to blame for the current financial crisis, applaud these “news” and between attending meetings at a government facility and eating lunch at a fine restaurant in their expensive suits (all paid by tax money), they act upset over those greedy bank people.

When some voice of reason points this insanity out, that person gets treated like a blasphemer during the dark ages. People actually want to be jealous at others, and don’t dare tell them otherwise. This apparent and very openly displayed greed – wanting what others have or no one should have it is greed – among the people makes them turn towards socialism. What better way is there to punish those with a higher income than to make everyone equally poor? And when someone points this out and show facts about socialisms never ending failures, people will blame this sane person for being a Bank stooge or the rich peoples lackey.

This is why I never even try anymore. Once upon a time I thought good of people, I thought they were just tricked and if I with friends could just lift that curtain of smoke up they would see the truth. This is nonsense, people don’t want to know or they are to brainless to even considering the possibility of non socialist ways. So you continue to do what you do best, being greedy, jealous and stupid and I will continue to tell you who you are, an idiot.