Thread: Robin Hood was a dirty crook!!! >:{

Originally Posted by Xei

I don't want lots of money, because people simply don't need it. If you have a fortune of greater than, say, £10,000,000, you can't possibly need any more money. You can get the best house you could possibly need, a car which works just as well as any other car, and pay your food and electricity bills with interest, etcetera. If you keep any more money then you're a greedy pig simply hoarding it to show off or simply for the sake of hoarding, and that's just not acceptable really with all the poverty in the world nowadays.

Have you heard of the basic economic problem? Limited resources, unlimited wants. I'll tell you what. I'm not giving a dime to the slackers on welfare, who have been raised to think it's okay to not work and just live off the government for your entire life. I owe them nothing. If I work and earn money that someone is willing to pay me, I'm happy. As Jeff said earlier, people are poor because they spend more than they make. They are careless. I'm not going to pay for that. I'll make and spend as much money as I please, and I will live as comfortably as possible. If you disagree, you are free to go to a communist nation where everyone shares the poverty.

Originally Posted by Lord Bennington

That's a bad version. The real quote is "It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven."
This was a clever play on words on Jesus's part. A needle in his day and age was another name for a gate. The eye of the needle was a small door cut out of the large gate. A camel could enter the eye of the needle, but first it had to wait in a long line, then unload itself, get on its knees and crawl through the eye.

Thanks for correcting my quote, it's been awhile since I've read the bible. That's an interesting biblical "play on words" btw.

Originally Posted by Xei

The amount of times I said that I only wanted a reasonable amount of money to support myself and live a nice life and you've still managed to come out of it thinking I'd eat out of bins. That bears no relevance at all to what I said?

You did say "Money has absolutely no place there." which stood out to me. Reading over the posts here again, I guess I was skimming over some of them, I apologize.

Originally Posted by Xei

Give me an example of a job which I'd find fulfilling and would make me rich.

How should I know? I don't know what kinds of things you find fuffilling, and you did say "Trust me, if I wanted to be a millionaire, I'd be one, ten years, easy.". which makes it sound like you have some sort of plan, even if you're not acting out on it...

And some people find collecting garbage fulfilling. Does that mean I can find a way for them to become rich and "fulfilled"?

Originally Posted by Lord Bennington

I'm not giving a dime to the slackers on welfare,

Do your parents pay taxes? Part of that money goes towards welfare. You can't choose what you would like the taxed money to go towards.

Wow... Grod. Somebody's Jewwing out on us.
I meant "an extra dime". I'm quite aware that my tax money is going to them.

How should I know? I don't know what kinds of things you find fuffilling, and you did say "Trust me, if I wanted to be a millionaire, I'd be one, ten years, easy.". which makes it sound like you have some sort of plan, even if you're not acting out on it...

Well yeah, that was my point really. You said that there other ways to become a millionaire than doing a boring bureaucratic job; I was just saying that as what's boring is a subjective opinion, that may not be so, and in my case probably isn't. I can't really think of an extremely highly paid job that I'd enjoy.

Originally Posted by Xei

Well yeah, that was my point really. You said that there other ways to become a millionaire than doing a boring bureaucratic job; I was just saying that as what's boring is a subjective opinion, that may not be so, and in my case probably isn't. I can't really think of an extremely highly paid job that I'd enjoy.

What are some of your interests? You may be surprised.