POLL TIME When did you start driving a car?

[Miami Leghorn]

Btw, I don’t like people who take risks no matter if they harm people with their decisions.

You're very naive in the way you think.

I think of the risks that those people made when they crossed the Atlantic Ocean from England to start a new colony. Not knowing what was to become of them on that journey,or after they settled.

Think of the risks that those take to start a company and employ people; people like you. People like me.

Hyperboles only serve to feed anecdotes given and shared by individuals that have not experienced something, someone, or life in general.

You'll see things differently when you reach adulthood. True adulthood.
Like is funny that way.

 

[AntiqueB]

You're very naive in the way you think.

I think of the risks that those people made when they crossed the Atlantic Ocean from England to start a new colony. Not knowing what was to become of them on that journey,or after they settled.

Think of the risks that those take to start a company and employ people; people like you. People like me.

Hyperboles only serve to feed anecdotes given and shared by individuals that have not experienced something, someone, or life in general.

You'll see things differently when you reach adulthood. True adulthood.
Like is funny that way.

I suspect @BDutch was thinking more of people who make decisions for others without regard to the effects of said decisions. Those who settled new areas generally came because they believed it to be better than staying where they were. This is different from people like the owners of the Chicago stockyards, who made decisions without thought for the harm they would cause.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I suspect @BDutch was thinking more of people who make decisions for others without regard to the effects of said decisions. Those who settled new areas generally came because they believed it to be better than staying where they were. This is different from people like the owners of the Chicago stockyards, who made decisions without thought for the harm they would cause.

And how old is BDutch?

 

[DickMidnight]

I suspect @BDutch was thinking more of people who make decisions for others without regard to the effects of said decisions. Those who settled new areas generally came because they believed it to be better than staying where they were. This is different from people like the owners of the Chicago stockyards, who made decisions without thought for the harm they would cause.

sure, but painting all successful business owners as heartless robber barons is a little too much of a generalization.

wealthy people, like any other subsection of the population, come in all shapes, sizes, colors and flavors. there are good ones and bad ones.

 

[BDutch]

sure, but painting all successful business owners as heartless robber barons is a little too much of a generalization.

wealthy people, like any other subsection of the population, come in all shapes, sizes, colors and flavors. there are good ones and bad ones.

Very true, many business owners (especially of SME) are good people who care for their employees. But the very wealthy directors of large companies and the very rich people in trade belong quite often to the bad ones.

Some of these rich guys (worldwide), use people as slaves, with poor salaries and letting them work > 50 hrs a week for an income thats just good enough to survive. Some do so directly , others from a distance /through trade. I find that kind of behaviour disgusting.
We have a saying for that: ‘Getting rich over someone else his back.’

My language and writing gives you probably a wrong impression of my age. English is not my first language and I never lived in an English speaking country. Spelling, making neat sentences and my vocabulary are not as good as in my own language. But google translate isn’t perfect either. Not yet.

This argument makes me feel I’m too uneducated/handicapped to grasp the things you’ll say. And also too uneducated/handicapped to express myself or my thoughts.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Some of these rich guys (worldwide), use people as slaves

Are we talking about Africans taking Africans as slaves? Or England taking Scottish and Irish men as slaves? Or Central American tribes taking other tribes in Central America as slaves and then as human sacrifices? Or are we talking about the sex slaves of Eastern Europe? Or are we talking about Mexicans selling Mexican children off through clandestine high-tech websites as slaves?

Do these people have a choice?

When I wake up in the morning and I go to work for my boss I know I have a choice to do so or not.

 

[BDutch]

Can we get back to the poll now?

When did you start driving a car? What’s you’re story?​

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Can we get back to the poll now?

When did you start driving a car? What’s you’re story?​

I thought as much.

Eat the rich.

Too funny.