Since when are greed and self-centeredness bad qualities according to you, or does that only apply to other people?

 I wonder if the 9 people who recently were accidentally shot by the incompetent New York cops are going to bring a suit against the city ?   

Oh yeah, and there was another accidental shooting by a New York cop a few days ago and this time the innocent civilian died.    I bet the cop gets off without being charged with anything.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/07/13729792-witness-deli-worker-mistakenly-shot-dead-by-new-york-cops?lite

This is bullshit.

Funny how I can see that you are right on this issue, but you cannot yourself see the destructive climate you blindly and unwittingly support. So what the banks, housing and car industry did because of deregulation had no affect on anyone? And your solution is "trust the bully, he wont hurt you".

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You harm innocent people when you make profit more important than investment, when both are equally important. You hurt innocent people when you explode the pay gap. You hurt innocent people when that collective society increasingly cannot make ends meet.

There is absoultly no physical way you cannot affect others positively or negitively unless you lived on a deserted island. I sincerely hope someday you head your own words.

jesus christ, why don't you guys just start butt-fucking already?  goddamn, does every thread either of you start have to end with the two of you beating the same fucking dead horse over and over?

If you compare inflation to minimum wages over the last 50 years, there is a significant discrepancy. Inflation has gone up 650 odd percent in that period of time. It literally costs 6.5 times more to live today than it did in the 60's.
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thomas/2011/10/inflation-rate-hits-657-for-past-50.html

Only in the last few years have minimum wages caught up to overall inflation.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html

But these figures aren't showing the actual cost of living, they show the bare minimum. Food, utilities, etc. There's no reflection of the fact it literally costs 5 times more today to fuel a car than it did when I was a kid. Or how rent has also jumped faster than inflation. Nor does it reflect quality, which has gone up for the rich, and down for everyone else (Kraft dinner instead of meat/veggies; expected product lifetimes significantly lower; banking fees which nickel and dime the poor while giving interest to the rich; I could go on).

  I agree.  Brian obviously has a deep-seated resentment toward Beyond and he ends up hijacking thread after thread accusing Beyond of being an evil capitalist oppressor.  Gee Brian why don't you start an thread that is strictly focused upon your complaints against Beyond and do all of your bitching there.   

"Where do you think the top 1% puts their money? Why do you think they put it there? "

Mostly in property and banks, where it sits doing nothing. The why is because they are as greedy and stupid as every other generation that sat on the brink of revolution. They think hoarding their money will save their money, but it won't.

"Of course we are having inflation, our government has been printing money left and right to pay for their debt."

Uh uh. Inflation is not the sole responsibility of the government, and printing money isn't the only thing that drives it either. They play a role, but the entire economic system is to blame, and everyone who's apart of it. Government didn't raise gas (taxes aren't the biggest driving force behind increased cost), rent, phone, and education costs; the private sector did that all by itself.

I agree with you that infinite inflation is unsustainable, but it'll take more than changing the policies of the reserve. The vast majority of business in the US operates the exact same.

Our current recession is primarily due to a rapid decrease in demand for property. IOW, a sudden lack of people purchasing property. It seems to me that if millionaires/billionaires continued purchasing property the market for real estate would not have collapsed. Obviously, the top 1% is not putting their money in real estate. 

 Money in banks... not so much (jumbo CD's are only paying 1.85%), but certainly a portion of it. What do you think banks do with the money? You think the money just sits there and the banks pay rich people premium interest rates on money that isn't doing anything?

Taxes are an extremely small part of the role government plays in the value of our money. The entire tax debate is completely absurd because it is so unimportant compared to the effect that government has by controlling interest rates- which has the practical effect of controlling money supply. The private sector has virtually no control of interest rates, they are limited by law how much they can charge beyond the government rates (called usury laws). If you have a problem with inflation, then you should target your anger at the federal reserve which has intentionally pursued low interest rate policies to increase monetary supply and cause inflation as the stated goal. The only fault the private sector has is in not overthrowing the government. You change the policies of the federal reserve and private companies will follow suit because they will have to in order to make a profit, and private companies will always attempt to pursue the most profitable route. (Because we are greedy)

A free market goes through periods of inflation and periods of deflation, the US has not had a free market for almost 100 years and the government has done everything it can to avoid deflation at all costs. When you have a fiat currency, government can effectively prevent deflation and cause inflation by controlling the monetary supply and the interest rates which is exactly what our government has done. There isn't jack shit I, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet can do to stop the government from maintaining inflation. The government sets an inflation goal and it is pretty damn good at getting close to it on a consistent basis. It is absurd to blame private business for government achieving a stated goal, especially when so many of us are doing everything we can to stop those fuckers in the government from achieving their goals. 

There's an argument that could be made by the litigants that the theatre's insurance could/should cover such random acts. They have insurance for fire. And that would presumably include fire by arson, right? Which is a random crime, right? So, if the fire just happened to have been in the chamber of a gun, with a bullet between it and freedom, then why shouldn't insurance cover that, too? That's what insurance is for, protecting people against unpredictable events.

..operations. I'm well aware how banks work. They don't generally do anything but for themselves.

"Taxes are an extremely small ~ profitable route. (Because we are greedy)"

I'm not denying the government has a role, but it has also reduced the speed at which inflation grows by regulating it in the first place.

As an example, my rent goes up by a government approved percentage each year, modifiable only when renovations have taken place. The landowners, every landowner I've ever encountered, has used the full percentage every single year I've been around to see it. If the government did not regulate the amount, then the landowners would raise rates faster and higher. Despite the fact that this percentage has been higher than the inflation rate, despite the fact that wages aren't keeping up.

The logical response from you would be that when rates are too high, the landowners go bankrupt from lack of customers.
Problem is that by then, everyone's lost. All the people out on the street and the once rich guy

 The whole concept of lawyers is hugely irrational. It's really just a good ole boys club where judges look out for the interests of lawyers, then the lawyers become judges. All at the expense of the rest of society.

Supposedly we have a judicial system that is fair and impartial. But if you have money and can pay a good lawyer, then you get better a better outcome. If the law and judicial system was really fair, you wouldn't need a to pay lawyer. This is the best example of how the rich rig the system in their favor.

Liability insurance is only covers damages caused by the person/entity that has the insurance. Property insurance only covers damage done to the specific property that is insured- for example, suppose that an arsonist burned down the theater, it would cover any damage to the theater but not damage to say a customers car that is damaged from being parked near the theater. Since the damage was not caused by the theater or employees and the damage at question is not the damage to the theaters property, there is no way insurance is going to cover any of it. Although, if this lawsuit is successful it is likely that we will see a new kind of "crime" insurance.

 " Our current recession is primarily due to a rapid decrease in demand for property. "

He never said that the money was tied up in property or banks in THIS country.