Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Agreed.

These threads tend to reinforce those who both have money to their name, as well as experience as a business owner. By that I mean, they know the true costs of running a business versus those clownshoes and Utopian dreamers who are more than happy to give away everyone else's money for the sake of being "fair". It's priceless comedy to be sure.

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Actually it's usually accepted among most level headed and objective people that if one party has to constantly resort to insults or ad hominem attacks that it means they are unable to debate the topic properly and they have probably ran out of facts. Thus the tendency to resort to the insults and other logical fallacies.

Also I have to point out that talking big on the internet and insulting people left and right doesn't really prove that you are richer or more successful than anyone else. In fact usually it means the exact opposite as I have observed. You don't see a lot of successful people calling people burger floppers online and talking about being able to buy and sell people 100 times over. There is a reason for that. OTOH lots of people desperately try to be someone online that they are not in real life. Not that the size of your pocketbook means you have all the facts any more so than anyone else. That's another fallacy called argument from authority.

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

You keep using the word "troll" and cling to the concept of "being trolled" which implies some sort of superiority on your part as if you actually have any purpose or point or argument, which you don't. Since you aren't smart enough to hold your own ground, you have to cling to this fabricated notion that you are somehow on the high ground as it is. Troll.... The use of that word is the final refuge of an intellectual lightweight. That's because you - though quite dumb, are smart enough to at least recognize that intellectually you are outgunned. You dodge the substance of the argument because you have to. Would end up being quite embarrassing for you if you didn't.