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Originally Posted by Kaylum
money will always be a touchy subject, will it not? personally i see it as friendly competition in this space.
we bullshit about everything, we touch on subjects of race, we talk smack about women, men.. we can discuss, make fun of, get heated over almost everything.. but we can't discuss how much money we earn or don't earn?
i guess it's just like the golden rule of "don't look at or talk to a man while pissing.."
money makes a good slave, and not the other way around..
peace
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Money being a taboo topic was something that was started by the uber-rich, of whom I doubt any are lurking here. The reason they did so was so that the middle classes, who are notorious for emulating, and thus want to BE the uber-rich, would follow suit.
The rich don't care about the poor because they have no power and pose no real threat. But the middle classes are another story. They make up the bulk of the population and act as the glue for society. They run the enterprises and governments off of which the rich grow fat. If the middle classes break down the whole thing collapses.
So keeping the middle class in the dark was to the advantage of the rich. If the middles ever found out what a huge disparity there was....look out.
The middle class, buying into the whole "it's gauche to talk about how much you make" propaganda did what they always do, they adopted it as their own.
money is indeed a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.