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    9 months ago

    Steps:

    1. be (usually born) rich
    2. have an agenda
    3. use your wealth to accomplish it
    4. lie, cheat, steal, do whatever you have to in order to “win”

    Did I leave anything out? :-P

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      9 months ago

      You forgot step 5: once you have won, change the rules so nobody else can play anymore

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          9 months ago

          Eh, you’re still on time. Wait (checks papers) no, sorry you aren’t. They just changed the rules.

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            9 months ago

            It’s okay, I’ll live.

            Wait no, I just checked the rules, none of us will. Oh well.

            Carpe diem baby! :-D

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                9 months ago

                Okay (1) FUCK YEAH, but also (5) did you just change the rules there - are you a billionaire? Or just (d) viva la vida loca:-P.

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                  I’m sure the moment I were to become a billionaire people would finally pull out the guillotines.

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                    Nah. Except yeah, probably. People aren’t great at handling subtleties - e.g. “tax the wealth” becomes “kill the billionaires”, as if the taxation part wasn’t the point, or the fact that actual trillionaires exist is somehow not relevant, etc. It’s easier to shoehorn facts into what people already want to do:-P.