Greg Broiles wrote:
Nader is getting a late start in the enthusiasm stakes, but it could be that he'll really surge. A lot of folks are mired deeply in what Nietzsche called "resentiment." They just don't like it when other people have done well by investing instead of by drinking beer for the past 20 years, and they want the successful people taken down a notch or two.
Ironically, Nader himself is a millionaire, apparently as a result of the investments he's made over the past 20-30 years and his spendthrift lifestyle. Good for him - but it makes me wonder where he'd draw the line between "wealth that's deserved" and "wealth that's not deserved."
I guess it's the same issue that I mentioned a couple days ago: it only matters if it affects you. that's why multinational corporations or the people representing them get a lot of wrath, and the solitary millionaire without a corp behind him does not. micro$oft and billy boy affect my life a lot more than the 1,000 millionaires living close by(*), most of whom I don't even know about. (*) I happen to live in Hamburg, which has germany's highest density of millionaires.