Olympics Of Greed

When is enough, enough?  When someone amasses billions of dollars, somewhere along the line that person robbed the public, by overpricing their products and/or services.  How else could they become so filthy rich, while the general population is getting poorer by the year?

"Where did the phrase 'filthy rich' come from?

The pejorative nature of the phrase is lessening all the time, and it’s increasingly used just to denote very rich. The origins of the phrase come from term filthy lucre, which was first used in print in the 16th Century, and was then used to denote money that had come from foul means. This led to filthy being a slang word for money."

In my opinion, the foregoing still applies more than ever. 

https://www.bing.com/search?q=definition+of+filthy+rich&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=definition+of+filthy+rich&sc=1-25&sk=&cvid=3094128499AE44579377CBB06E03006F

Forbes 400 listing of the wealthiest in America is the scoreboard of the addicted to money crowd.  Yes, money, like sex for example, is addictive and these on the Forbes list work (more like steal) their way to the top to earn the gold medal of ultimate greed.  If it were not so sickening, one could feel sorry for these, apparently, addicted individuals because in the end, they cannot take it with them.  Can you imagine, the vast number of poor souls waiting for them to arrive, so they can get even for making their lives miserable on earth?

Assuming all is true what most religions teach, one would have to ponder this singular question, which is longer the suffering of a life span on earth, or the suffering for all eternity?  Now, one could say everybody knows the answer to that question.  Well, it appears, the filthy rich have no idea about this time-span question, why else would they risk everything?  The answer is twofold, addiction to money and greed; nothing else seems to matter for them.

It is a common belief, among most people that death is the great equalizer, if these greedy rich ones would just die and enjoy bliss for all eternity, what great equalization would that be? One hopes that there is justice somewhere, if not in the afterlife, where?  One can suspect that the religions of the world are in the service of the filthy rich, mandated to keep the populous quiet with the promise of great rewards in the afterlife for their inflicted suffering on earth.  Granted, this promise keeps the sufferers going, in the service of the wealthy and powerful, i.e. mission accomplished but is this just and fair?

Going back in history, were not the biggest scoundrel assuming the position of the Pope through money and power?  These often criminals became, according to church doctrine, infallible men;  what a crock this was.  The political systems of the world are so engineered that, most of the time, only the wealthy and well-connected can enjoy positions of power.   In the USA it takes, apparently, one billion dollars to get elected President.  Influenced perhaps by church doctrine, the public trusts that whoever is elected has now their interests at heart; nothing could be further from the truth.

Whoever had the most self-serving money contributions from the elites, and is elected, is now ready and empowered to serve not the interest of the people, who elected them, but the interest of those who provided the money to get them into position of power.  The Forbes 400 list is just the tip of the iceberg, it shows those who have managed to do it better than the herd of the also wealthy; it is nothing but the scoreboard of the greed Olympics.
https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#249787f77e2f

Nowadays, when a politician brags that he or she is very rich the public now applauds; the wealthy politician has now star qualities, go figure.  The perceived logic goes like this, when we elect a very wealthy person, he or she won't need to steal from us while in office, however, we overlook the fact that this person now has to make it easier for his friends and sponsors to steal from us.  In reality nothing has changed, the former middle-class and the poor still get shafted, overtly or covertly.

I doubt very much that these costly wealth extractions in other countries serve the innocent voter, and his family, it surely serves the filthy rich whose wealth increases exponentially.   There has never been such a stark wealth inequality, as we experience now.







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