The Incredibly Ugly Answer To Being Too Lazy, Untalented, And/Or Unclever To Become Wealthy And Successful
Just a suspicion on my part, but I'd guess that's where a tweet like this one is really coming from:
Maybe if the people of Bel-Air opened their enormous and outrageously expensive homes to the homeless or helped the homeless in their community their houses wouldn't have burned down. Just a thought. 🤷🏻♂️
— MC Thomas (@filmmichaelcOX) December 12, 2017
Homeless people are sometimes mentally ill or meth users. Is the average little old widow really equipped to provide homeless services?
Of course, plenty of wealthy people are benevolent. Not all are. But that is absolutely their choice.
Because I think of what's effective, I would suggest that those who want wealthy people to be charitable persuade them -- as I did in my TED talk, "The surprising self-interest in being kind to strangers" -- that it's in their self-interest: that their lives will be more meaningful and they'll thus be more at peace and even happier if they extend themselves for others.
In case you didn't read the story that provoked this dude's tweet:
Homeless encampment cooking fire responsible for Bel Air fire. California's governor Jerry Brown instead blamed "climate change" as a "new normal" ... apparently an easier problem to address than the state's chronic homelessness. https://t.co/xhAawxH01O
— Ryan Maue | weather.us (@RyanMaue) December 13, 2017
Does he take in the homeless to sleep on his couch? Because, as economist Robert Frank points out, wealth is relative. If you have a roof and a couch, you have more than the homeless guy outside 7-Eleven. Even if you just have a roof and a rug, you've got more.
Hey, @filmmichaelcOX, let us know when you'll be passing on a spare set of keys to that dude who makes his "home" by the 7-Eleven trash can.
via @overlawyered
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Ben David at December 12, 2017 11:57 PM
This numbskull is also a freelance filmmaker and actor.
Shit like this is why I #BoycottHollywood.
mpetrie98 at December 13, 2017 12:11 AM
I find it a totally appropriate question to ask.
The 1% in their gated communities are not affected by the homeless, nor by immigration. They, collectively, set the policies, but they don't trip over the homeless living in their stairwell. They (again, collectively) tell us "we're putting x-thousand migrants in your town", but they don't have hundreds of people from 3rd world shit-holes living in their gates communities.
a_random_guy at December 13, 2017 1:48 AM
So, MC Thomas believes that this is a karmic payback for rich people not opening their homes to the homeless? What a stupid notion.
Patrick at December 13, 2017 5:38 AM
And they say it's only Christians who engage in wish-fulfillment thinking. Ha.
Cousin Dave at December 13, 2017 6:03 AM
What kind of moron misses the idea that 95 percent of the homeless are homeless because their own mental illness, drug addiction, or other social pathologies keep them from living with their own relatives or anywhere else?
Isab at December 13, 2017 6:35 AM
END HOMELESSNESS NOW!!
(As long as it's anyone but me making the effort, that is..)
(And I reserve the right to scream about it all day long..)
(And to criticize you for your inaction..)
Liberals, God love 'em, cuz fewer and fewer people will.
bkmale at December 13, 2017 6:43 AM
Isab,
That's because the majority of homeless are comprised of people that the SJWs love to despise: Men, veterans, and the elderly.
Sixclaws at December 13, 2017 6:55 AM
Even after several millennia "You shall not ... covet anything that is your neighbor's" remains good advice.
tmitsss at December 13, 2017 7:14 AM
If the police found the camp, I hope they can identify the meth-head and put him in prison.
The fact that someone is homeless does not make the rest of us criminals for being successful, nor does it create a duty on our part.
jdgalt at December 13, 2017 7:57 AM
The tweeter is a PA. Who does he think make the films he works on?
KAteC at December 13, 2017 8:19 AM
There are people who are wealthy who got it by ripping people off: those who used government connections for special favors, and those who used fraud (think Bernie Madoff or people who scam you on the phone or internet).
BUT: most people who are wealthy became wealthy by providing something people want or need. Many wealthy people are in music or movies or high tech. Others got rich building housing and office buildings or in law or medicine. But the largest group of wealthy are owners of plumbing services, small retail outlets, contracting businesses, etc. All of these people can only get rich because someone wanted what they offered. They cannot take your money by force--you line up to pay them because they have something you need. AND the vast majority of the rich worked their butts off to get there. 80 hr weeks for high tech startups or doctors, for example. Jealousy is not an attractive emotion. Was this guy willing to put in the effort to get rich? Probably not. Do the rich "owe" the poor anything? It is the rich and corporations who build the McDonalds and who bankroll the movies that hire so many people. Without them there would be no jobs.
cc at December 13, 2017 1:03 PM
What I love is the millennials on Reddit whining that "The group with the most money is the Baby Boomers! It isn't fair!".
Uh yeah, any sane person would expect that people who've been in the work force for 40-50 years, and who have had time to buy property and/or invest will have more money than people who've been in the work force for a few years.
JoJo at December 14, 2017 9:21 AM
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