Cash is King

[txlibdem]

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

He who dies with the most toys wins.
The accumulation of wealth is the only goal worth attaining.
Millionaires are people, non-millionaires are cattle (or sheeple)
I want to make the most money possible and I don't care how many people I trample on my way to the top

[rhett o rick]

1. I find this a curious post. Do you really expect anyone here to honestly answer agree? nm

[Warpy]

2. You've never been around the dying

Even the most type A corporate sociopath in the world regrets never really getting to know his children. At the end, people are important. Nobody ever regrets not spending more hours at work or getting more promotions or grabbing more money.

[JHB]

3. Yeah, but we've had a generation of people doing lots of damage...

...before they get to that point. they almost never undo it, and their proteges are right behind them, still doing it.

[PassingFair]

7. Poor people with no life insurance, worried about how their loved ones will survive...

they regret leaving them and being unable to protect them.

I've seen it.

[saras]

4. Sheeple have nothing to do with wealth. Cattle perhaps.

Asch's 1951 experiment defines sheeple pretty well, although others do also.

The task was to tell which of three lines was longest. And we're talking relatively obvious distinctions, not 1-mm subtleties. More like two or three inches - when alone, it's obvious to everyone which is longest, and nearly everyone gets 100% every time. Easy enough, right? Easy enough, until everyone else in the room disagrees with you.

The results - about a quarter are completely unaffected by others opinions. They are right every time. They are not sheeple.

A larger bunch - the size varies with the experiment - struggle with reconciling their perception with the others. They are relatively ordinary people, perhaps more socially sensitive and aware than the above group.

The third group adapts to the group consensus nearly every time, and does not remember that they have done so. They are sheeple.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Try posting that in GD and see what answers you get.

[Po_d Mainiac]

6. Substitute "Oil" for cash. n/t