Value —from the Proverbs of Tharmas Erthona

[milo]

"There are more poor people who steal than there are rich people who steal...but the rich steal more...per occasion."

-tiztec

there are more poor people
than rich people.

[Erthona]

Rich people can steal hundreds of millions of dollars, see enron. Whereas poor people only steal in the hundreds or thousands of dollars. So what one rich person can steal, it might take a hundred thousand poor people to steal. So per occasion, rich people steal more and maybe even when seen as a percentage of their own socioeconomic group compared to the same percentage of the poor group the rich people steal more. That is compare .00001% of each group that steals. That may only be one hundred rich persons and 100,000 poor people, but because the rich person steals so much more than the poor person per event, these 100 rich people actually steal more, if reduced to money, than those 100,000 poor people. So just because there are more poor people than rich people, it doesn't necessarily mean that rich people do not , in the aggregate, spend more.

dale the calctitionor  

[jeremyyoung]

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