Magnitus: He did a lot, but let's be real... the software industry would have more than managed without him.

The contributions of mathematicians and theoretical scientists like Einstein, Gauss, Euler or Newton were a lot more far reaching, but these gents didn't get even 1% of the fortune Bill Gates got.

I find it's funny how some people have a grandiose idea of their place in the scheme of things... as if they can figure out anything that is so intricate or unique that nobody else in the hundreds of billions of people who now walk the Earth and who will walk the Earth can figure it out.

However, I'll give props to Mr Gates in that he probably realized his own insignificance when he decided to focus on charity instead of increasing his assets.

We are all small grains of sand in an extremely large beach so let's stop thinking of ourselves as gods and just try to contribute our insignificant little part while enjoying ourselves.

Magnitus: The contributions of mathematicians and theoretical scientists like Einstein, Gauss, Euler or Newton were a lot more far reaching, but these gents didn't get even 0.0001% of the fortune Bill Gates got.

Wishbone: Too late. I'm pretty horrified right now. This thread is so full of insanity, it's scary.

XmXFLUXmX: The onion is a parody website, just fyi. Next time you want to explain why hard work is for the chumps, maybe try not to cite comedy websites.

hedwards: (...) the humor is that they've given us common sense slipped in as a bit of satire.

uulav: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/apr/04/aki-kaurismaki-le-havre-interview

"The only way for mankind to get out of this misery is to kill the 1% who own everything. The 1% who have put us in the position where humanity has no value. The rich. And the politicians who are the puppies of the rich."

What you guys think about this drunken finnish artist? I think that violence is never justified no matter what is the case.

XmXFLUXmX: He sounds like your typical envious Communist. People with intelligence, ethics, cunning and who work hard in the business market should be rewarded if the customers deem so by buying their products or services. Successful people should not have to worry about becoming a victim of left-wing terrorism. That nutjob should be inside a prison wearing a straight jacket.


The "99%" need to quit doing drugs, quit listening to left-wing media, and just get a job or invest time and money into something, or better yet, start their own business, instead of demanding everything for free from the government.

Tychoxi: so you indiscriminately kill the richest 1% so that a different set of people can become the richest 1%? lol just lol

Vestin: I'd also like to point out that (and this is merely a conclusion I've recently reached) while "comedy is not meant to be taken seriously, satire is not meant to be taken literally".

Also - the forum ate my previous post made a few hours ago, so let me also mention the two things I pointed out there:

First of all - I found it tragic that the same person who lamented how all people care about is money suggested that the problem can be solved by redistributing it. In other words - he implicitly ascribed to the same "greed paradigm" he criticized :|.
Secondly - this is probably why my initial post in this thread received no attention. After all - throughout this discussion you all have implicitly assumed that money is what makes people happy and thus - we need to give unhappy people more money.

Vestin: After all - throughout this discussion you all have implicitly assumed that money is what makes people happy and thus - we need to give unhappy people more money.

hedwards: The issue isn't money, it's that the only way of getting things like food and shelter for many people involves money because there's a small portion of the population that owns everything.

Badash: If those hundreds of billions of people could have done it then why didn't they? It's pretty simple. Don't complicate it.

spindown: Fixed your post.

MinuteBracelet: I know this thread is about the 1%, but what about the rest of us? I'm going to assume that given that we're on a gaming forum that all or most people here are part of western culture, so excuse me. Think of the 1%. Think of how they seem to us. Now think of us, and how we seem to the rest of this so called "99%". Face it. We're rich ourselves, relative to the rest of the world! While we're hating on people who are "rich" to us, the rest of the human population would love to inject their opinion of us into this thread, only they can't even afford a computer! So why can't we just stop hating on JUST the "1%" and instead take into account our own fortunes? Even if you're in tough financial times right now, you probably have a better standard of living then say, the average worker in China. So instead of getting all mad at the 1%, maybe we could just be thankful for what we have compared to persons in less-developed countries, and maybe even converse about how we can redistribute ALL of our own wealth with the entirety of the world.