CDR: Re: Nader

[Tom Vogt]

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.