1%ers greedy, unethical, inhumane

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I've yet to meet a poor (moneywise) doctor or a poor owner of a medical center or labratory.

And while they may include poor people as necessary to conduct their crime against taxpayers, the motivation for a rich person is greed while the motivation for the poor person may be to feed his starving children or something similarly selfless.

We obviously run in different circles. I personally know numerous doctors who haven't a dime. paying off hundreds of thousands of dollars of school debt, $25-100,000 a year for malpractice insurance, getting paid $.05-.15 on the dollar for services rendered from the OHP & medicare all the while making it a point to treat such patients (while many other doctors refuse to), being stiffed by people with money for their services (usually what they owe after insurance pays) just because they can do so...

I mean, I do know greedy medical professionals as well, but also ones that do a tremendous amount of pro bono work and other charitable work. In fact, last week I asked a local oral surgeon if he would remove two broken teeth that have entered the sinus cavity of a friend of my wife who is living on social security alone. The normal cost is about $2500 per tooth for this type of surgery. He never hesitated- he'll do the work for free. I used my position in an insurance company to do this. My boss used his position when he worked the medical side to get our company to pay over $50,000 for a procedure on a child that wasn't covered. Why? because it was the right thing to do. The CEO approved it and it was never broadcast to the world. That stuff happens all the time.

Not necessarily you, Maris, but so many people are hopelessly jaded and think that every attorney or doctor or insurance company... is just out to soak and hurt people. We saw that recently on the woman who was tragically killed by the Max- people who are so into class warfare and clueless they can only spew hate. It's one thing to make crude remarks to try and be funny or elicit comments (as I sometimes do) but quite another to live within a world mired in crap so deep you choke on it.

So trust me, there are a lot of really good doctors, attorneys, insurance companies, policemen (and policewomen) around who do the world good.

 

[MARIS61]

Yes. Doctors get paid well because they go through 12 years of schooling and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt after graduation so they can save lives. Sure, you're going to get a lot of psychopaths in the mix but whatever. The motivation for many of the poor/middle class is to buy more objects (since objects = wealth I suppose). My coworker was telling me the Section 8 family she is renting her condo to has a brand new BMW, while stiffing her for a few months rent.

Doctors get paid a lot because they have you over a barrell. It's legal coercion through collusion.

Like the mechanic who triple-charges you when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere because you have no other options.

Or the gas station that's 25 cents a gallon higher because it's 30 miles to the next closest one.

We've already established in past posts that you have no concept of what "poor" actually means when referring to economic classes in America so I won't belabor the point that poor thieves are motivated by hunger, need for shelter, need for medical attention.

In your mind a poor person is single with no dependents and makes $30,000+ yr.

The coworker story seems dubious since few condos allow you to sublet, HUD rarely approves any home for Section 8 if it has amenities such as a pool, HUD pays a considerable share of the rent and your coworker can evict the tenant just like any other tenant who doesn't pay.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

they're motivated by greed. greed is common among the poor and rich. Its an American condition.

There is no difference, in my mind, in the ethics of the poor or the rich or the middle class in terms of being greedy, unethical and inhumane. Its the American mindset.

 

[MARIS61]

they're motivated by greed. greed is common among the poor and rich. Its an American condition.

There is no difference, in my mind, in the ethics of the poor or the rich or the middle class in terms of being greedy, unethical and inhumane. Its the American mindset.

That's because you have never known poor people.

By remaining aloof you can think any silly thing you want about people. Only means you're deceiving yourself.

And greed is not "American".

It's a class thing, not a territorial thing.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

no, its not a class thing. poor people can be greedy. rich people can be greedy. you're the one with the closed worldview of the "evil 1%".