Ruined lives of the overpaid

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Ruined lives of the overpaid

Postby sceneshifter » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:08 pm

Let us take a moment to think of all those lives spent and wasted in the military and CIA and all the other tyrannous agencies in the world worrying about all the forms of opposition to tyranny/superpower/overpay/robbers and having to forever be thinking up all sorts of strategies to stop the robbed getting their money back, to stop the robbed learning they are robbed, to stop the 99% underpaid sacking the 0.0001% superoverpaid<br><br>Let us take a moment to feel real and deep pity for all those with more than they have earned who are therefore permanently isolated, which is the greatest pain, from the human tribe, which is the greatest fun for a human, from trust and fellowship, from fun and freedom and laughter and lightness and belonging<br><br>There was a member of a tribe, who thought it was a good idea to steal a heap of things belonging to the rest of the tribe while the tribe were away from the village, and found that he had gained only more than he could use, and lost the tribe, the safety, the fun, the friendliness, the fellowship, and had to hide in the forest, alone, cold, fearing always the vengeance of the tribe, too afraid to confess his error and throw himself on the mercy of the tribe<br><br>Let us remember that love of overpay is a mistake, that overpay is disastrous for happiness, that every bit of overpay, of having what others have earned, comes attached to an angry person - love of overpay is making enemies, polluting your environment with enemies, danger, fear, fright, with endless necessity of fear and suspicion and caution and plotting to try to protect oneself, with no hope in the long run of succeeding in keeping back the overwhelming flood of retribution - <br><br>Let us think of all the efforts of the whites in South Africa that they were forced to practice day in day out and never able to enjoy the company freely and fearlessly of the human tribe and fail and fall in the end, as always it is in history<br><br>Let us think of what an extremely bad bargain it is for the overpaid, the low pluses and the high minuses of overpay - all needs and millions of desires are satisfied by fairpay of US$75,000 per family working average hard, so overpay can satisfy few and only very marginal desires, and on the other hand the cost in loss of the human tribe, the loss of safety, the need of eternal vigilance which must fail sooner or later, and throw them into poverty or death in the end<br><br>Let us for once concentrate all our sympathy and pity onto those who suffer the torments of hell, unable to face up to the reality of the misery of their so very erroneous lifechoice, overpay, or theft, and all its enormous costs - what is more dreadful for a human than losing the human community, losing the enjoyment of being trusted, esteemed, belonging, accepted, loved, one of the tribe, sharing all the tribe's joys and festivals, having brothers in the struggles, sisters to mend broken hearts and bones? <br><br>Let us remember what corridors of extremity and brutality the overpaid are forced to go down, driven by their error, which perhaps was a much more innocent and simple error than the evils they are forced into<br><br>Let us think what gigantic selfhate must be accumulated by people driven by their initial relatively innocent error to brutalities and evils they do not wish to know. Their mistake was only an error of foresight, of not looking forward to the chain of consequences of theft to see the terrible loss of the security and fun of the tribe, and now they are driven down an endless corridor of everworsening evils they must commit in the feverish effort to save themselves in their ever-increasingly precarious, and finally failing position. Pity the thieves, who gain so pathetically little and lose what is psychologically everything to a human - company! They are driven to forming fake bonds with other thieves through sharing mutual knowledge of socially damning acts they commit in their secret societies. Their only company is other thieves, others in the same everworsening hell. Their only friendship is the artificially induced pseudo-friendship of secret societies, the decision of the very insecure to protect one another, and to prey together, only on the underpaid. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Ruined lives of the overpaid

Postby sceneshifter » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:00 pm

what do you think of this, ri-ers? <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Ruined lives of the overpaid

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:42 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Let us think what gigantic selfhate must be accumulated by people driven<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Unfortunately (pun intended), justifications for being over- or underpaid have been sown into American culture.<br><br>The myth of free markets is the biggest hoax used to perpetuate gross inequity.<br><br>Capitalism's have/have not class division is very carefully and deliberately held in place with psycho-political events meant to make us either comfortable with or acquiescent to terrible poverty next to incomprehensible wealth.<br><br>>Lottery thinking. 'I could be the next zillionaire.'<br>>Celebrity. 'I'm just as good as they are.'<br>>Sports. 'Winners deserve to win on the level playing field.'<br><br>Sports are used to indoctrinate on many levels.<br>Linking fairness to brand USA, Inc. is the biggest task. <p></p><i></i>
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Sports

Postby FourthBase » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:14 am

Sports can be used by our side, too, though. <p></p><i></i>
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nice

Postby wintler » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:49 am

I like it, sceneshifter, thanks for the scene shift, might be read too as a warning against certain paths. I do feel sympathy for the overpaid, but its hard to communicate with them - i'm too proud to stand their scorn. I'm going to call your text a prayer and put it on my reread list. <br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: wintler, hmw

Postby sceneshifter » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:09 am

<br>thanks, wintler, for the support - all signs of consciousness reinforce my conviction that there may be enough sense out there to save our lives<br><br>hmw:<br><br>the biggest task and the most important - ie, the task to do first, to prioritize, put at the head of our priorities, because it solves most problems and does it permanently<br><br>what have we got with which to convince people to adopt limitation of fortunes?<br><br>it is just - it is limitation of personal fortunes to the most one person can contribute to the pool of social wealth by their lifetime's work <br><br>overpay causes tyranny, undemocracy, plutocracy, revolution, downfall of plutocracy, slavery, oppression, torture, cruelty, terrorism, pride, arrogance, pitilessness, <br><br>underpay causes ginormous miseries, prevents most people contributing their best to society<br><br>overpay/underpay causes violence - violence is escalative - escalation must reach extinction in time - we have now the power to total 60 planet earths<br> <br>99% are better off financially [99% are paid less than the world average of US$75,000 a year per family working average hard [2006, doubling every 12 years] ]<br><br>100% are enormously better off [the 1% overpaid gain nonextinction, and loss of the endless hassle of trying to hold on to the plunder, a hassle which must eat all the plunder in time, and end in failure [eg, ceausescu, southafrican whites, french plutocracy in french revolution] - everyone gets 99% reduction in violence and danger and anger - everyone already knows this: if a government took 99% of aftertax income off 99% of people and gave it to the 1%, everyone knows that it would cause enormous violence, it would break the state - so we all know that that is how much violence will disappear if we stop the theft of up to 99.9% of the earnings of 99% of people, the theft of over 90% of earnings of 90% of people<br><br>overpower is corruption - of everything - politics, science, art, education, medicine, economics - everything<br><br>i will be fascinated if one person can give me one tiny slight reason for overfortunes, for unlimited fortunes - anyone - one slightest reason<br><br>and if you cant? - it means you continue to withhold disapproval of overfortunes at the peril of your honour and claim to sanity <p></p><i></i>
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Sports again

Postby FourthBase » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:13 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>what have we got with which to convince people to adopt limitation of fortunes?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Salary caps.<br><br>They exist in football, basketball, and now hockey. <p></p><i></i>
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