I'm reminded of odious Oprah and the reprehensible Rock asking regular Americans to contribute to relief for the Hawaiian fire victims when, with their unearned fortunes, they could take care of it out of their own pockets easily.
Brilliant. Crowdfunding before it became a thing. Slight drawback though, here you can see the man and his champagne bottle, whereas, on the internet everyone is anonymous.
Crowd funding was already a thing by then. Auguste Comte did it in the early 19th century. The base of the Statue of Liberty was crowd funded. War bonds are a form of crowd funding.
@@spac18 True, but there are ways to be tactful about it, and a lot of wealthy people aren't. Not that a million pound home is necessarily any indication of wealth these days - a lot of people have million pound homes but are dead poor as far as their actual lifestyle goes, and that can make it hard for them to recognise that they're still filthy rich compared to their friends and relatives, who might actually have a more 'rich' lifestyle, but absolutely zero financial security (and in many cases, negative financial security ie debts).
Some people just have a knack for it, no point of great writing if delivery doesn't do it any justice. Ronnie Barker, David Jason and I would also add Jermeny Clarkson, Harry Enfield and Eric Morecambe in that. British treasures, legends.
Yes I do, do you? xD Or do you think capitalists aren't idle rich, but hard-working peanut farmers? Adam Smith might want to have a profound discussion with you then, sir. I truly hope you aren't one of those "socialists are freeloaders and capitalists are hard-working investors" type of people. That kind of people make me cringe, like televangelists, online loan sharks and MLM hucksters. To believe that a capitalist, who believes that (rather aristocratically) corporate shares and assets gives him a right to retain the largest chunk of the price and labor generated by his employees, is a fair and honest individual, and that a socialist, who believes the motto 'from each to his ability, to each to his needs', i.e. that every person ought to work as productively as possible while also living out a humane lifestyle, is a parasite, is to live under a veritable rock of ignorance. I refuse to believe that somebody smart enough to sensibly control a keyboard, mouse and computer could live under one such rock; instead, it must be the gambler's fallacy: the belief that, no matter how much of a loser one is, one might one day become a capitalist, so that in the meantime, let us invest into the capitalist system and defend its scum! Ironically, it is the oppression caused by capitalists that is partly responsible for a person becoming a loser; and it is the fight with oppression that turns a loser into a role model. It's as if a whale of a person would staunchly defend the junk food industry and attack people who call it fattening, instead of going on a diet and exercise regimen!
Well capitalism is the chance for people to work hard and make money and create lives for themselves, but sure, your financial misfortunes are the faults of those capable of doing well in life.
@@KPater-mf4je You are the dumb one to believe such 19th century gibberish in a technocratic 21st century. Buy some stocks of a major corporation and start enjoying the fruit of free market.
