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Why we have riots
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That's exactly what I mean. But then they're drawing conclusions as if those people are a representative sample.
That's like taking Hitler [I know] as a representative sample of pre-war Germans on the grounds that I don't know enough about anybody else.
1. He was Austrian
2. Godwin's Law has now taken affect.0 -
"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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That's exactly what I mean. But then they're drawing conclusions as if those people are a representative sample.
That's like taking Hitler [I know] as a representative sample of pre-war Germans on the grounds that I don't know enough about anybody else.
I believe a majority of the pre war German population voted for him.0 -
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You get rich three ways.
1. You work hard.
2. You inherit it, from your parents who worked really hard to leave you it.
3. You win it.
What's the issue with having money?0 -
There's only one way really. You get lucky and then bang on about how you worked hard.AliceJenkins wrote: »You get rich three ways."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Fair enough - that's a more reasonable point than it sounded at first (i.e. the issue isn't with the statistics published, it's with the use of them as a representative sample).That's exactly what I mean. But then they're drawing conclusions as if those people are a representative sample.
But I still don't think there's anything wrong with someone spending their money however they want. While you might find it distasteful, I believe a better avenue of attack in that case would be to look at how they obtained their money, and whether there was any unfairness in that.
To me, once someone has legal title over the money it's entirely up to them to do what they want with it. I don't agree with ostentatiousness (no crystal baths for me, regardless of the affordability aspect), but I'll defend someone's right to pursue it if that's their choice.
There's nothing inherently wrong with someone wanting a crystal bath, nor is there anything inherently wrong with an individual having the means to send people to the Amazon to source one.0
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