The Rich Boy

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1. romanoderomaAug 2020
   If they were willing to give volunterly that wouldn't be necessary

   Taxes are always taken, even if you earn 20k/year

   I know that the only reason USA are born was to avoid paying taxes, but it's a bit silly to think that a billionaire cannot be asked to contribute back to help those that are in need

   A billionaire

   It means at least a million times a thousand dollars

   1% for them is virtually nothing

   Unless billionaires want to send their children to collect trash, ship Amazon packages, drive cabs, keep the house clean, defend the country in the military (funny how rich people almost always skipped it) etc. etc. then they owe to society more than society owes to them

   It's that simple

   To not understand it one must be mentally challenged

   The funniest thing is that you're not a billionaire and would only benefit from a more just society

   But you felt for the same mistake that Scott Fitzgerald made many years ago.

   "The rich are different from you and me” wrote in his novella, The Rich Boy, with a sense of romantic longing.

   Ernest Hemingway is said to have replied “Yes, they have more money.”

   Hemingway wrote later on, in a 1936 issue of Esquire magazine, “that was not humorous to Scott. He thought that they were a special glamorous race and when he found out they weren’t, it wrecked him"

   Don't be a Fitzgerald, be a Hemingway.

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2. nmykAug 2015
   >> Something also tells me that if this guy wasn't absolutely stinking rich but was just a regular grumpy 70-something, there would be significantly fewer people fawning over his egotistical temperament.

   You're forgetting the thing about him where he makes art that is unbelievably beautiful. He says himself he'd still do it even if his materials were worthless.

   But who knows why people want to spend hundreds of thousands to own it.

   "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Rich Boy"

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3. aaronbrethorstJul 2015
   It's F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the quote is actually from another story of his, The Rich Boy. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/books/l-the-rich-are-diffe...
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