Wealth is not a pie, with a fixed amount to be divvied up among all comers. It can be created, in small amounts and large. Anyone can increase his wealth - perhaps not to Bill Gates' level, but with sacrifice and planning one can improve one's station in life; and that's what creating wealth is.

"The hordes of immigrants were not drawn to America by the misapprehension that this country's millionaires would soon be dissolving their estates and passing out the proceeds to all comers. What lured our ancestors here was the chance to build a better, freer life through their own efforts." ~ Louis Rukeyser

Wealth is a judgment call. Because there are always things we can create or do to make others happy, there's no limit to how much wealth the world can have.

What price freedom, such as we have kept?

You must be this tall to push this trash can.

https://youtu.be/vLt_1_lrGSo

Keep it hush

https://mobile.twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/1199474388132859904

"Wealth is not a pie, with a fixed amount to be divvied up among all comers. It can be created, in small amounts and large."

This needs to be shouted from the rootops, at every school in the nation. Newcomers, if you learn one thing from reading here, learn this.

Here's the analogy I like to use: You have a pile of materials that you are going to use to build a house. The pile of materials is worth a certain amount. However, once you complete the house, it is worth more than the pile of materials. Your labor created wealth.

(I don't mean this to sound like the "labor theory of value" that the Communists used. Labor is one means of creating wealth; there are others. And merely expending labor does not necessarily create wealth. If I use the pile of materials to build an abstract sculpture, the completed sculpture is likely not worth more than the materials, which means I haven't created any wealth despite my labor.)

Wealth can also be destroyed. If the house burns down, its value is gone; the wealth that I created has been destroyed. The house burning down was an accident, but I could also destroy that wealth through my own actions, if I am foolish: if I trash the house and allow it to become infested with termites, then the house is now worth less. My carelessness and mis-management caused wealth to be destroyed.

If you date, you're probably transphobic.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/25/transgender-people-claim-gays-are-transphobic-for-declining-sex-with-them/

We started with Florida Man. Then Florida Woman, Florida Judge and Florida Dog. Now...Florida Lawyer? oy.

...the March 2017 incident in which Steven Gutierrez was just beginning his closing argument when smoke began billowing out of his front pocket. He fled to the bathroom and extinguished himself, and upon returning told the judge that the problem had been caused by a defective e-cigarette battery. He insisted it was purely coincidental that his client was accused of arson and that the defense attributed that fire to spontaneous combustion.

...

First, you might be wondering what crime Gutierrez was almost charged with, and the answer is apparently pants arson. According to the facts set forth in the consent judgment, the State had analyzed whether his actions during trial “rose to the level of arson under Florida law,” and decided they did not.

http://loweringthebar.net/2019/11/lawyer-pants-fire-still-feeling-heat.html

Cheese.

https://twitter.com/aggierican/status/1199676256142417920

Difference between Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders is that Bloomberg is trying to buy the election with his money and Warren/Sanders are trying to buy it with yours.

https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1199455723232677888

Insufferable Air Force general loses a star

https://mobile.twitter.com/CaucasianRandom/status/1197942628580392960

You guys think this Jewish libertarian is right about why white men are going Alt right?

He has some valid points, Jamal. But that isn't why people are 'going alt right'. They've redefined what alt right is. People aren't moving, the definition is. There really aren't enough despicable people in the US to meet the needs of those who wish to oppose them. The KKK isn't significant. Same with white nationalists. So the people who want to fight white nationalists just make some up.

Look at George Zimmerman. Love him, hate him, I don't really care anymore. But 'white hispanic' didn't exist before him. They wanted him to be a white guy so they made him into one. And that is hardly a unique situation. People aren't moving, the definitions are.

It is the same reason whites won't be a minority. Instead all the asians will wake up one day and find they are white. They are too successful and don't use enough government services. With the magic of redefinition they will become white. Just like the Jews, the Italians, the Irish, and all the other groups that get lumped into being called white.

Mix this with the theme song from the first Terminator movie and we have a winner:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1197861682061725696

More inappropriate audience comments from people who, to put a point on it, undoubtedly don't know anything significant about their targets:

Column: ‘Please tell the weather girl to get some maternity dresses’: WGN morning team shares garbage notes they got from viewers while pregnant

Tragic. Maybe the ladies should cut out the ignoring act middleman and go straight to shooting them dead.

Murder suspect grew frustrated when UIC student didn’t react to his catcalls, prosecutors allege

Male Sex Hormones Are a Big Deal, Too

The Stupid Party goes OOPS!

The Unrepentant Bill Cosby.

Some good news out of Pennsylvania:

Pennsylvania ends future child sex abuse charges time limits

America's VERY FIRST impeachment attempt.

mpetrie: _Bad_ news out of Pennsylvania: they just enabled countless sex abuse charges that can neither be proven nor disproven, many of them malicious lies or based on "recovered" memories. (Recovered memories are generally _induced_, not recovered, in therapy, so that even if there was an underlying real fragment of memory, who, when, and where are all likely to have been made up.)

mpetrie: _Bad_ news out of Pennsylvania: they just enabled countless sex abuse charges that can neither be proven nor disproven, many of them malicious lies or based on "recovered" memories. (Recovered memories are generally _induced_ in therapy, not remembered, so that even if there was an underlying real fragment of memory, who, when, and where are all likely to have been made up.)