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TheHonJudgeSmails
06/17/09

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Hi buddy!
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Mymoustache
06/17/09

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Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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CaptainFantastic
06/17/09

@Mymoustache: Big hitter, the Lama.
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resipsaloquacious
06/17/09

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Hamilton,

Not only are rich smarter, but they are also better poets:

It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat.
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jackvinyl
06/17/09

@resipsaloquacious: alright Pookie, you do the Honors.
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scroll_lock
06/17/09

@jackvinyl: I christen thee The Flying WASP.
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CaptainFantastic
06/17/09

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How do you measure yourself with other rich people?

By height.
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BookishLookish
06/17/09

@CaptainFantastic: The rich ladies do this, but they make the tape measure go around, not up and down.
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momof3wildkids
06/17/09

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Judge Smails: You know, you should play with Dr. Beeper and myself. I mean, he's been club champion for three years running and I'm no slouch myself.

Ty Webb: Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch
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scroll_lock
06/17/09

@momof3wildkids: I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish, okay?
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scroll_lock
06/17/09

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With a hat like that you get a free bowl of soup.
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m4ximusprim3
06/17/09

@scroll_lock: Oh, it looks good on you though!
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scroll_lock
06/17/09

@m4ximusprim3: I feel like a hundred dollars.
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m4ximusprim3
06/17/09

@scroll_lock Hey baby, you musta been something before electricity!

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scroll_lock
06/17/09

@m4ximusprim3: Wanna make $14 the hard way?
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belltolls
06/17/09

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They have learned how to BE...BE THE BALL.
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Mount_Prion
06/17/09

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I've now stumbled across the word "recessionista" several times, and each encounter is worse than the previous. Exponentially worse.
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DaveCrabtree
06/17/09

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Oh, this story is complete bullshit. The truly rich have no guilt about being rich. In fact, feeling guilt about anything may be outside of their emotional range. It's only poor schmoes who make it rich unexpectedly who might feel a little bit of guilt about their good fortune, but they get over that pretty fast.
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BadUncle
06/17/09

@DaveCrabtree: That's kind of a sweeping generalization that ignores the history of philanthropy.
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DaveCrabtree
06/17/09

@BadUncle: Well, I'm all about sweeping generalizations, but do you really think that philanthropy comes from guilt?
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BadUncle
06/17/09

@DaveCrabtree: Well, it could come from a deep well-spring of altruism. The cynic would say "guilt." I leave it to you to analyze Andrew Carnegie's motivations.
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BBooms
06/17/09

@BadUncle: It comes out of the desire to have buildings named after you, and to one-up your contemporaries.

"Guilt" and "altruism" is a naive way of looking at it.
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DaveCrabtree
06/17/09

@BadUncle: I see self-aggrandisement or the sin of pride, rather than guilt, as the cynical interpretation of altruism. Self-aggrandisement is. In Carnegie's specific case, there was religious fervor involved as well, so that may have been self-aggrandisement in the eyes of God.
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DaveCrabtree
06/17/09

@DaveCrabtree: Sorry about that. Either I need to work on my typing and proofreading skills, or I need to start drinking at lunch so I've got an excuse.
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BadUncle
06/17/09

@BBooms: I was being sarcastic. As Hobbes said, altruism is an appetite, and self-serving. @DaveCrabtree: Carnegie was probably a glib example. Self-agrandizement doesn't account for the *many* riches that give without requiring their names on hospitals. I'm related to a few of them, so I can guarantee that they exist.
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DaveCrabtree
06/17/09

@BadUncle: I wasn't suggesting that there are no true altruists. I think there are many people, rich and poor, who are charitable out of the best of motives. My generalization, which you called me on, was that guilt was not something that many riches feel. I think that riches who are philanthropic may be that way for noble reasons or for ignoble motives (e.g., self=aggrandisement), but not because they feel guilty.
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kathotdog
06/17/09

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In the immortal words of Judge Smails*:

You'll get nothing and like it!

*Caddyshack Judge Smails, not Gawker Judge Smails.
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BookishLookish
06/17/09

@kathotdog: Oh my God, they are not one and the same? Who was that guy last night who...oh, never mind.
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