On 9/6/16 8:10 AM, Razer wrote:


On 09/05/2016 11:20 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:


With unlimited funding, how many do you suppose had martial arts, boxing, wrestl
ing, football, and/or military training?

Nice myth.

Should we poll the list?

Lots spend time at a gym, buy $5k bikes and ride them around the
mountains until they heart attack or stroke out in their 40s.

   If you ride bikes around mountains a lot, you are very unlikely to have
   a heart attack or stroke.  That's pretty much the point because the
   risk reduction is well known.

You're talking about people whose only focus in life is making money.

   No, I'm talking about their children and their children's friends.  The
   camp was said to be organized for or run by the child of a
   billionaire.  You're talking about the billionaire class, where you
   might be correct although many now have trainers so they don't die
   young.  But I would expect their children and their cohorts to have
   been well trained and cared for just out of principle and because the
   cost is insignificant.

Tech being the vehicle for that 'wealth accumulation', but their lives
revolve around money.IF they did any of the things you're romantically
mentioning ... thinking about cunts like Larry Ellison, it's hobby, or
something they did to look good for the other fratbrats at kollege.
They're dead meat unless they're dealing with an unruly drunk at a fern
bar who'd fall over if you shoved them anyway.

   For many (but not all) who have money, their lives do not revolve
   around money.  At least that's not what I would expect and not what
   I've observed.


That's why the top dogs travel with bodyguards. Too many potential
enemies, and a killer instinct that works well firing an administrative
assistant or to put a thousand people out of work in the shareholder's
interest ('lots of enemies') but simply doesn't cut it at 'street level'.

Most don't even have the smarts to hide their rollie when they go
slumming but getting mugged is going to make for good water cooler
stories where they can talk it up, unless they're like that google exec
who  had a penchant for kinky S&M hookers and heroin, and OD'd and ended
up just dead a couple of years ago. The hooker went to jail. He never
would have if it was the other way around with a dead OD'd hooker.
American Just-Us is funny that. But I'm not laughing.

Rr


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