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How are you defining "elite" here? Are you saying they are inherently superior to other people of lower birth? Or is it something else, like they receive education, make connections etc that give them more than others get?
Construction is like 50% of their GDP
You're the economics expert and if you don't see that as problematic I'll defer to you, but it kind of worries me (especially when much of it is financed by borrowing from their middle class)
Edit: And I sure as hell see America's healthcare spending and increase as problematic and a recession in the making
man will this new computer is so fast at everything
He's an agent. And agent of justice! Also Native American.
DRIVE SAFE EVERYONE.
Look the sooner you rebels apologise to Queeney and her family, the sooner you will get to stand bravely in the rain waving a little Crown embossed US flag as a royal limousine splashes water all over your best suit
hilarious
geth roll 1d1+3 for simultaneous time corners
and that's all you need to know about that, really
Gotta love King Jordan of Star Trek, and his self financed and licensed Star Trek theme park scheduled to open 2015!
No, without delicious oil money, they'd be The Elite, just not as rich. They're the elite of that country, they're clearly at the top of society, and would be even without nauseatingly large yachts.
The reason the elite =/= the rich there, is because even if you got rich, that probably wouldn't be enough to get you to the top. Not that people really all of a sudden "get rich".
Can we trade?
Let me tell you why you're wrong, Skippy...
(I get you, I was just going for a joke at my own expense)
someone has to pour all the concrete that industrial societies live in. you are trying to argue that this concrete will not turn out to be useful. well, stare at a rural population chart until you have convinced yourself otherwise.
and if you are trying to argue that construction must remain at 50% at GDP in order to avoid disaster, this is patently silly; stare at a history of Western sectoral change until you have convinced yourself otherwise.
If you think about it, there isn't a king alive who isn't descended from some kind of goat farmer.
It can't be fancy unless it comes with a hat.
All the fanciest positions have hats.
They are elite because they have ancestry to back them, their own families are the ones who captured the reigns of power and created a state for themselves which they fully control with pleasure. Their wealth is one aspect but it isn't a necessary aspect.
soviet scientists were the best
"i wonder what would happen if we.."
"FUCK IT WE'RE DOIN' IT"
Do I get into your clubhouse?
It's good to re calibrate once in awhile, or else wind up being that guy who can't let go of his fucked up POV.
I have an extremely hard time getting upset about the whole BPA/Antiandrogen thingy. Like, when folks talk about how horrible it is to reuse water bottles or leave them out in the sun, there's this niggling little voice in the back of my head going, 'Oh gosh no, that that would be just totally tragic.'
Click here for a horrible H/A thread with details.
and they are rendered irrelevant the moment wealth stems from ownership of capital rather than ownership of land with oil in it
this seems like the absolute worst way to solve the problem
people don't passively starve to death
In that case....
*takes off condom, goes back to watching reruns of Frasier*
I'm bad at getting into my office. I have a lot of projects I've been putting off finishing, and have real financial work I gotta do first, so my gaming time has been non-existant. I also don't like ARAM that much, and like to play summoners rift try hard most.. Delusions of grandeur.
Regardless, if you guys see me on here or there, and have a slot open shoot me a PM and ill man up and game if I'm at home.
For 50% of your severance I can give you advice on how to make this dream a reality.
Their construction sector is full of corruption and inefficiency. Reporting bad numbers results in being told to stop being a trouble maker.
I just can't parse how this is better than say, providing cheap housing for your rural citizenry, because that's not what they are doing. They are building housing that nobody can afford to live in.
In fact the locations where this construction is happening are displacing rural economies and the people who live there can't even afford to live in the cities being built right over their farms
Seriously what's with this? "SKFM is too loud about his wealth lets expel him from chat btw here's TNC to remind us how the Middle East is all about that date wealth".
Interestingly enough there was an episode of More or Less recently where, prompted by the protests of the self-appointed descendants of Richard III over where his remains will be buried, they calculated the proportion of the UK population that is likely to be related to the former monarch in question to at least the degree claimed by those bringing a case in the High Court.
(it was a lot)
I imagine in most cases, it's some dubious claim of heredity to some person who is probably an oral tradition amalgamation in the first place, reinforced by money and power over hundreds of years. Just repeating the story and suppressing the dissent until no one who cares or knows the truth is alive anymore. And from there, you can work the magic of divine right.
Well no. If you stretch back to African descendants maybe. The Saudi king came from a noble family who was already controlling territory and was considered a kind of leader. Similar to the King of Jordan. He claims descent from the Prophet's tribe and has ruled Mecca in some form of another until the British support during the First world war.
In Iran the Safavids and the subsequent descendants dynasties with the exception of Reza Shah where noble Turkmen, some in form or another. None were common goat herders. Even Chinggis Khan was a noble.
You aren't going to become rich if you aren't the king's cousin.
The elite=the rich there. Because their great grand pappy happened to have his butt on the throne when we decided oil was an important thing and they're a big family.
i am repulsed.
his eyes...his mouth...the blue.
oh god the end.
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