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Originally posted by pimplink
Does money really determine if one is a 'winner' or a 'loser'?
Can one be very poor but still respected and admired?
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It depends on the culture you're immersed in. If you live in an environment where people are vassals of Mammon, then yes it's a situation of
dollars uber alles. Some countries in the western world are more immured in that mindset than others, but the bottom line is that the bottom line helps take you a long way to the winners' circle.
Yet as you probably already know, poor people can be great people. Mother Theressa was obviously not a loser, and she was pretty far from having the nickname 'blingqueen'.
It'd be pretty cool if she did have that nick, though. Saint Blingqueen has a nice, sacrilious ring to it...
