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Viva_Daddy

(785 posts) Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:48 PM Sep 2012

To define “success” as “wealth” is to define “fit” as “muscle-bound”.

Can't we do better than this? ''

What about Peace, Health, Happiness?

To end "Welfare as we know it" we must end Poverty as we know it...and to do that the rich have to get over their obsession with money.

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To define “success” as “wealth” is to define “fit” as “muscle-bound”. (Original Post) Viva_Daddy Sep 2012 OP

lol at rich ppl just being "obsessed with money" BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #1

Poverty and wealth are relative things, I think. Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #2

I think it is much more complicated. rhett o rick Sep 2012 #3

BOG PERSON

(2,916 posts)

1. lol at rich ppl just being "obsessed with money"

Reply to Viva_Daddy (Original post)

Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:57 PM

Sep 2012

like they're numismatists who got carried away

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

2. Poverty and wealth are relative things, I think.

Reply to Viva_Daddy (Original post)

Sun Sep 2, 2012, 04:06 PM

Sep 2012

So there can never be an end to poverty, since in comparison to the most wealthy, there will always be those that are much less wealthy and considered poor.

The conditions the poor live in change from generation to generation, and from country to country.

I agree that success means different things to different people. Romney seems to assume that EVERYONE defines it as wealth, and that everyone wants to be rich. I don't believe that at all.

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)

3. I think it is much more complicated.

Reply to Viva_Daddy (Original post)

Sun Sep 2, 2012, 04:30 PM

Sep 2012

In the USofA we have evolved to equate success with the increase of wealth. Not just the rich but most of us. And to increase wealth, in general someone has to decrease. Granted if the economy is growing then it is possible for everyone to increase their wealth. But this wont satisfy us. We need to increase our relative wealth. We will never get our society to voluntarily change this view of success. The best we can hope for is that a majority of society will put restrictions on excess wealth and help those that are left behind in this race.

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