Should rich people be forced into compassion courses sorta like anger management?

[Anonymous]

DOGE earns it's Karma.

Inhumanity.

[abc3643]

No, because it's impossible. In fact, a few years ago, a study was released which showed then, when people are given an advantage creating an unequal relationship, they eventually tend to become assholes towards those without that advantage. It was a fascinating finding. The study used a rigged Monopoly game in which a coin flip determined who'd be the player with the advantages. In short, 1) the rich got richer and the poor got poorer and 2) the rich became assholes.

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2021/01/19/why-rich-people-tend-think-they-deserve-their-money

[Asker]

Thanks for this. Interesting.

[OddBeMe]

Can’t teach pschopaths empathy.

[Asker]

Boom.

[OddBeMe]

Can teach them their brand will be demolished if they step into the political arena.

[Account]

You either learn to develop compassion from a young age or you don't or at some point the ability to feel it gets taken away from you.

Being forced into that cannot work.

[Agape93]

You can't force an understanding of empathy or compassion, that's not how it works

[OneViewpoint]

But but but... I got a 98 on the test. I have empathy now. My sociopathy is cured. I'm gonna go kick a puppy now.

[Agape93]

Lol.

[Asker]

Correct. It was a trick Q

[Jersey2]

Doge is very compassionate. They are stopping the wasteful spending which will allow more money to go to people who need it which includes those on special government programs and also the taxpayers who will pay less in taxes.

The people who are hurt by Doge cuts are people in huge mansions who have been stealing billions of dollars a year that was meant for those is need.

Perhaps what is needed is that liberals sit down and follow the money. They should be mad at the wasteful and corrupt spending.

[Shiprex]

No it's not those people, it's veterans providing veteran services and less well off people who have had their entitlements removed because DOGE has not been regulated properly as it's goal of robbing privacy from citizens to sell to corporations and insurance agencies AGAINST their will.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex Can you show me specifics? Thanks.

[Shiprex]

1. Veterans affairs
On Feb. 13, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. According to Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., that included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure.

2. Defence
The Defense Department said Friday that it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place. Uniformed military personnel are exempt.

So there's a few thousand of people involved in the US right wing's favourite boasting aspect of their "Military prowess" because they love guns and having access to killing people who scare them even though they're other citizens going about their business

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex My thoughts, the hires in the past 2 years are very likely useless DEI hires. Worthless employees. Second, the VA provides horrible services and should be eliminated in total and the money spent of private healthcare at the choice of the veteran.

The government is both wasteful and corrupt and should not be organizing and providing services. There are many horror stories of VA incompetence and delays.

[Asker]

Where is Doge proof?

Where is Musk?

Empty and Hiding.

Huh. All evidence to the contrary.

[Asker]

I still want my $5000 check for the 2 trillion they brazenly claimed to pull from massive fraud.

Nothing. No fraud no check.

They didn't find jack and you are still hopefully stroking them. At what point will you wake up?

[Jersey2]

I don’t want $5,000. I said that when they ASKED if that’s what people wanted. I don’t recall Congress saying they would create and approve a bill to pay people. I don’t want it because it isn’t life changing but the combined amount would hurt the deficit.

Yes, I would like some proof as well but I can wait.

[Shiprex]

@Jersey2
They were jobs that veterans RELIED on ffs. It's irrelevant whether they got there because they were part of an under represented group because of the inherent racism in US culture.

The government should not be organising and providing services? What !! That is the whole point of governments.

The only incompetence on show is the clown show embarrassment of the Trump regime. Like a toddler has been put in a fat adult costume

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex No, we don’t want to create jobs because someone needs one. That is wasteful and corrupt. Good people will find jobs.

The US was founded with a small federal government and it was expected to stay that way. It should supply a military a federal prison system and that is about it. We can take care of ourselves, most of us anyway.

And you people said the same crap about Trump in his first term and here he is a big winner in this election. No one cares what the Trump haters say, they want more of his first term and they are getting it.

[Shiprex]

The US has a large government because it has INTERNATIONAL influence and has a responsibility to the citizens for infrastructure, security, law enforcement, environmental protection, employment protection, intelligence services, and a check of corruption which is being dismantled.
Look at the crypto corruption
Look at the gifts from foreign countries
Look at DOGE and Musk helping himself to citizens private data.
The contracts corruption going to Musk
Then the failure to abide by keeping records of speeches and communication using insecure means TO AVOID records tgat are meant to be kept.
The firing of essential services personnel only to have to rehire them moments later.
Incompetent and dangerous idiocy

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex Doge is the new check on corruption because the old organizations were corrupt. And we don’t need to be sending money to Trans and gay operas in Argentina!

Our private data is already out there thanks to Google, Microsoft, Apple and others. In 2008 Google tried to fight the governor it but ended up getting access themselves as well as a compromise. Do No Evil was their motto, they can’t say that anymore.

Musk provides valuable services such as dirt cheap rocket launches for $52 million and Starlink for Ukraine.

And the firing of essential personnel has shown that they are not essential. They are a waste of money. They need to go and will go once we get past the barrage of lawfare. These one off judges will no longer have the power they think they do now. Can you image in the 1860s if a southern judge blocked Lincoln’s freeing the slaves? F these tiny judges.

[Shiprex]

Doge is NOT a check on corruption. That's a myth they pushed to get the ignorant cult to believe. it's already been shown to be a lie.
The firing of those essential people meant that thousands of people had to go out of their way to get support or LOST IT COMPLETELY because the essentials services FOR THEM weren't deemed necessary. SO maybe since there's no war on right now they should fire the whole military since it's not needed right now is it? That's the level of intellectual idiocy the Trumplicans are so ignorant of. It's an oligarchy these fools are imposing on a democracy. Copycat of the Putin and Assad regimes he seem so fond of.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex As I said, the federal government was meant to be small. But it was to provide a military so no we won’t fire them even though between wars the military is shrunk down a bit anyway. That’s normal.

Yes, doge is finding waste and corruption BUT even if they are… FIRE MOST of Federal workers. It’s bloated and they are pure shit as employees. Fire them, fire them by the hundreds of thousands a year. Makes me happy.

[Jersey2]

They aren’t*

[Shiprex]

Start with the military, it's a bigger spend than the NEXT 20 countries combined so why none of the cult saying "savings" there could be made?
Then there's homelessness and poverty being ignored and taxing JUST MUSK at the same rate an average worker gets taxed would pay for that. Then the other hangers on who keep Sleepy Don in the limelight could help fix the crumbling infrastructure the US is built around. You could keep going and just his sponsors could end a shit load of the poverty in the US but they're more interested in giving themselves tax breaks, blatantly engaging in corruption the US has accused Russian and other countries regimes of doing but doing it in full view.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex Your points were considered by American voters and 155 million of them voted and Trump was the winner so we rejected your ideas. Are you Swedish? Because you don’t seem to understand the US.

[Shiprex]

@Jersey2
We do understand US because ALL of my well travelled American friends and colleagues say SWEDEN is (without pause) the closest European nation to US BUT it has a conscience and culture unlike the Magats who've destroyed the building US culture of being a leader and turned their nation into a laughing stock with a president and his regime making a mockery of the nation on the world stage.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex I am well travelled. More so than any of your friends. I have been to all 7 continents. I have been to Europe around 70 times. I have been to Sweden 4 times. I have been o your neighbors, Denmark (perhaps more times than you), Norway and Finland. I don’t see Sweden as a close friend or closest to us. The UK would hold that title for us in the US.

Some people like us, some don’t. Who cares what you think. We don’t think about you at all. What will Europe do if the US completely pulls out and severs our military commitments? You will need to spend a lot of money to protect yourselves from China, Russia and North Korea. I would imaging they would all come through Russias border. We will be safe though.

[Shiprex]

Going to foreign countries doesn't make you KNOW them. Spending time there does. The UK is nothing like the US as that's where I am originally from and know they're countries separated by a common language. The mentality is hugely different while Sweden has a far greater affinity with the US than ANYWHERE in Europe. It's NOT about being friends or allies but being CLOSEST in style and outlook.
You obviously care enough to boast about how you've been all places and everywhere but seem ignorant about those places, probably military or as an airline pilot.
Europe has more than enough capability to support itself and it's NOT the Chinese we have to worry about, it's THE US and it's irrational government that is more of a corporate front than national representation of values of the American people.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex You are all wrong yet again. I was doing business in Europe including Nordic countries. So I knew some Swedes quite well and shared many of a Carlsberg green beer with them. I remember one Swede who was a C Level tell me that Sweden won’t join NATO because they know we in the US will come to help them if the Russians attacked. Well then you saw what happened to Ukraine and then wanted in. So yeah, I think I know Swedes well enough.

Again, the UK is our true friend in Europe. Sweden is not and you only have 10 million people. That’s like little ole New Jersey. Except that New Jersey has a bigger GDP by a fair amount.

[Shiprex]

SO you've never lived there and only visited but think you can talk about the cultures and reality of being here? A few business men aren't the culture and you can see they weren't really all that on the pulse of the nation either. As a nominally neutral nation historically joining NATO was not in the nature of the country. You'll be ignorant that Swedish troops were deployed in the Bosnian conflict alongside Danes and were commended for their performance in spite of not being "in NATO".
That there is a big enough capacity for defence in Europe but the US has to have it's access and oversight ends up making Europe more a target than the US so perhaps it's that war mongering nation who's the real threat to world peace?
You're doing the typical Duhmerican thing with that and ignoring the fact that the UK has a hugely different cultural background of democratic socialism that's alien to the US. Sweden had been militarily engaged with NATO for decades and even "sank" a US aircraft carrier in exercises in 2005 and it was a DIESEL running one.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex So you say I don’t know because these were just business men but yet you are telling me about my country because… of your interactions with US businessmen and friends… do you even hear yourself?

Anyway, it’s the UK. Here is a poll, Sweden doesn’t make the top 10.

https://brilliantmaps.com/us-allies-enemies/

[Shiprex]

Are you insane?
I said that Americans HERE who've all been around Europe (Not Okie from Miscoagie who's never had a passport who they think would be in a war America decided was necessary (remember the Falklands War maybe when US decided to sit on the fence and give no support when UK was invaded by Argentina and then consider who joined the war on terror after 9/11 the ONLY time article 5 has been put out and then think how Trump is dumping on this and threatening Europe that the agreement won't be followed?)
This is people who LIVE here, lived elsewhere in Europe have travelled widely through Europe and ALL say Sweden is the country MOST LIKE the US. Where tf you're getting to bring in wars and military is madness. Survey's of American's living in America about WHO they see as their ally is irrelevant. I'd stick to folk who've been out of the country and lived elsewhere than tourists who saw Rome London and Paris.

[Jersey2]

@Shiprex First realize that to a well travelled American such as myself, you are the Okie from Miscoagie. I will say I am impressed that you j is of that phrase.

The US is a global power with many friends for many reasons. We were friends with the UK and Argentina and tried to stop the war before it really got going. In the end, before the Brits landed, we threw our support behind the UK. By the way, I have been to the Falklands as well. A 5 minute cell phone call from there to NYC cost me $150. :D.

Your US friends are being nice to you. In the US, we don’t even consider Sweden as you are a backwater of the world, no offense. Oh, and I have seen Rome, London, Paris and with the latter two, I had people working for me in those cities. Each of those cities I have been to many times.

[Jersey2]

That you know that phrase*

[Anonymous]

Nothing should be forced, but compassion is a noble trait.

Karma will teach them eventually.

[Asker]

True

[Panthero80]

You assume all rich people are incapable of compassion. Should all middle-class people be forced into similar programs? After all. they are wealthy compared to the majority of people in the world, many of whom live on less than $2 US dollars daily.

[MisterWack]

Force CEOs, top earners, and those dodging taxes to attend compassion courses?
Couldn’t hurt to try, though probably won’t make a difference.

[DrPepper12]

No. They should be taxed out of existence at a certain point. Just give them a trophy a pat on the back congratulate them for winning the game of capitalism and send them on their merry way. Maybe 50 billion cut off

[exitseven]

There is no shame in kicking freeloaders off Social Security and medicaid.

[Asker]

And what about defenseless citizens who cannot work this system due to disabilities or symptoms of old age (Literally 99.9% of those enrolled). Do they simply not matter?

Where is Musks proof of fraud? He has yet to come forth. Wait.. he's nowhere to be seen these days.

Find a new excuse.

[exitseven]

Citizens are entitled to it and are receiving it.

[Asker]

You need to educate yourself with facts. Not listen to what you hear.

[DonaldDarko]

Those are called reeducation camps. And no, they shouldn't.

[SotiCoto]

No. They should be executed, and their wealth redistributed to everyone equally.

[Asker]

Brutal. This has been done before and worked out nicely for survivors.

[Anonymous]

Sure that way they will be better at manipulation to make even more money than they already do.

[Asker]

Point noted lol

[Filthy_Immigrant]

yeah but only rich folks like Bill Gates, George Soros and those that want to harm the world

[beefcakebradybatson]

Sure, I'll buy it, since most of today's overlords lack compassion for the less fortunate.

[Dargil]

Who or what forces and why?

[Asker]

Its a trick Q don't blow something overthinking it

[NicholasRedone]

It would make America more competitive ✌🏻🤭

[Pterodon]

Nope. They are compassionate

[Asker]

Pfft