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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the south. [View all]Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)So buying a hedge fund is racist how specifically? Because until the financial shit hit the fan, someone could have simply invested without realizing it was "bad". Didn't Al Gore have a hedge fund? I don't have the money to put into one, so I know I'm not guilty... but I'm still curious as to if someone bought into one, how is it wrong for a liberal? To be a hedge fund manager and/or to work to manipulate the markets... that I can see. But if we make money when things go bad, at least we are still likely to put that same money back into making things better.
Flipping a house is capitalizing on a tragedy for sure, but can result in a home that is available for someone who needs a place to live and again, the money made can go back into the community so I think it would be important to see HOW someone did it and not just THAT they did do it.
Treating service personell like shit is something I can understand is completely wrong. And I think a better cancellation policy is in order where you live. Have you ever suggested that it seems a bit unfair to someone who does it trying not to come down on them with both boots? It could be they aren't as financially solvent as it appears from outside, but the timing being possibly painful to their service person should be important enough that they cancel 2 days in advance so they at least have a chance to line up another job.
Trading work for rent could be looked at as sharecropping or bartering. Barter values the person and their talents for the worth of the rent in a situation where someone's credit might not give them other options. Maybe something you aren't seeing in these situations is an underlying respect because it looks so much like the other. I don't know haven't seen the people who are doing this, but it could be worth considering.
Up here we refer to just about EVERYONE by their first name because it's a sign of acceptance into our world. A desire to be as kind and generous to strangers as we are to our families.... and we don't always get that right either - owning to the fact that we are human. I'll say Mamm or Sir before I will say, Mr, Mrs or Miss so and so. It just isn't the way we normally relate to people.
I do talk to people from down south on the phone to supply computer support and they call me Miss so and so or Sir ( i have a low voice in the mornings ) and it bugs me to think of myself as "above" someone else like that. HOWEVER, I have found that most people "get me" in a short time and I am a "favorite" on the support line. I get people laughing and solve their problem and send them on their way quickly.
Like I said up post, I do pull out Mamm and Sir a lot though and I like that. It is pure and simple respect to me and that I can easily do. But talking to someone and calling them by their last name just seems foreign to my nature. I love this world we live in and the people who live on it. Someone has to be a real ass to get on my bad side. It has happened though. Ironically, THEN I might be inclined to call them Mr or MRS so and so - to put distance between us, throw up the defenses and use icily polite as a shield against allowing myself to care about them too much.