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Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

#7
I wish he could lose his job for being so ungrateful and out of touch with reality and learn how truly privileged he is. This guy needs a wake up call ASAP.

Also, look at how disgusting some of the comments are on the cache, truly disgusting: "The poor are inferior to the rich in the U.S. The ones who are rich have used the system to generally move up, not manipulate the rest of the population as the liberal biters/haters would have you see the world you created."

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

#8
Not really saying all that much.

We earn over $250k so we're considered superich though that's not fair because we're not really rich because we spend all our money on normal stuff like house and groceries and richer people evade taxes offshore but we're not rich enough to do that and we could evade taxes by pretending to be divorced but we're too moral to do that and if you tax us we'll have to fire our gardener and cleaner and sell our house and that's not good for the economy and who said that you can spend money better that me anyway you Marxian.

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

#9
A few lessons here re the blog post being referred to:

1. The title "professor" does not confer knowledge, intelligence or wisdom.

2. Know that your online audience is diverse even if your regular readers aren't.

3. If you're in a prominent non-activist position, avoid discussing politics, religion or sex.

4. Never disclose details about your personal life, especially financials, unless you've thought it through and had a trusted and objective friend to review your post.

5. Be careful about making yourself the subject of a blog entry. It's tough to avoid coming off as narcissistic.

And the obvious cliche: Write your emails and blog entries as if they're going to be published on the front page of a very popular newspaper that holds opposing views to yours.

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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post #8

Not really saying all that much. We earn over $250k so we're considered superich though that's not fair because we're not really rich because we spend all our money on normal stuff like house and groceries and richer people evade taxes offshore but we're not rich enough to do that and we could evade taxes by pretending to be divorced but we're too moral to do that and if you tax us we'll have to fire our gardener and…

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