The role of wealth in achieving prosperity.

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The right word is entitlement. I am entitled to use my Visa card the way I want to you may not use mine, you're not entitled. If you get your own, you will be entitled to use yours as you see fit. The word has more than one definition. I am entitled to my Social Security benefit because I paid into it for 45 years. My friend who never held a job and did not pay into it was denied benefits because he is not entitled. It means what has been earned, not only what you might be due in a will or by accident of birth.

Keep thinking that way and you are being played.

YOU don't define words. Usage does, and in the political sphere this word is being used as a denigration. iT is being used to skew your perceptions.

Your example proves that it works. You being 'entitled' to your own visa card is you having the 'right's to spend money that ISN'T yours. You are entitled to rack up debt.

And that is exactly the connotation the GOP WANTS you to form in your head regarding Social Security. You spending money that isn't yours.

Now, I KNOW that that is not what you meant to imply by your example.... I know you think I am twisting your example around...

but I promise you, your example is NOT a picture of your going into debt by coincidence. When the right tests wording they actually ask a battery of questions and specifically LOOK for people to make the exact KIND of association you just did.

Because THAT is how effective persuasion works. You THINK you are using the word correctly, but how you understand the word is being steered.


I am not making this up- there are courses you can take in how to sway opinions thru manipulation of people's perceptions by the words they use.


Sorry- but your example ought to frighten you. Its just that easy to skew people's mindsets to equate 'entitlement' with 'debt'.
With spending money that you haven't earned yet.
 

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Bill O'Reilly worked damn hard for his money. Nothing was given to him. He never even had a stroke of luck blown in his direction. Even God wasn't on his side - believe you that!

I kindly ask: Don't bash success.
he sits behind a desk and says stupid shit.

he's never worked hard a day in his life.

Let's see him clean out 5 septic tanks in one 8 hour shift. And then do it again every monday thru friday for the next 20 years.
 
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Keep thinking that way and you are being played.

YOU don't define words. Usage does, and in the political sphere this word is being used as a denigration. iT is being used to skew your perceptions.

Your example proves that it works. You being 'entitled' to your own visa card is you having the 'right's to spend money that ISN'T yours. You are entitled to rack up debt.

And that is exactly the connotation the GOP WANTS you to form in your head regarding Social Security. You spending money that isn't yours.

Now, I KNOW that that is not what you meant to imply by your example.... I know you think I am twisting your example around...

but I promise you, your example is NOT a picture of your going into debt by coincidence. When the right tests wording they actually ask a battery of questions and specifically LOOK for people to make the exact KIND of association you just did.

Because THAT is how effective persuasion works. You THINK you are using the word correctly, but how you understand the word is being steered.


I am not making this up- there are courses you can take in how to sway opinions thru manipulation of people's perceptions by the words they use.


Sorry- but your example ought to frighten you. Its just that easy to skew people's mindsets to equate 'entitlement' with 'debt'.
With spending money that you haven't earned yet.

I know people can and are manipulated by words. Using my Social Security ENTITLEMENT is not going into debt - the money is there and yes the Feds have paid back the money they borrowed - there is no stealing involved. Using my Visa - which I am entitled to because I earned a high score on my FICO report could easily cause me to get into a serious debt problem if I do not use it wisely and pay it off quickly. I have always done so, and it is useful to me to be able to do that. I know a lot of people who went deep on credit cards and were foolish to do so. I do not know one who could not avoid the problems they had if they had been responsible for themselves. Not everyone who is in debt problems is irresponsible - but as it happens the people I know who were in trouble were careless and had no one but themselves to blame for their troubles. A guy who looses his job through no fault of his own is a different situation
 
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Gina Reinhardt, Australian. Is supposedly the worlds richest woman. She inherited her fathers Lang Hancock mining empire.

Yet she fought through the courts continuously to prevent her children's inheritance being passed on to them.

One really needs to ask oneself in her position how much does one need in the short time we are here to be comfortable.

Greed. From before the time of recorded history is something the human race still struggles to deal with.