last night i watched this show called the fabulous life of celebrity kids.
"Meet a new generation of fab: it's a world where solid gold pool tables are found in the playroom, and $500,000 pink diamond pinkie rings are stuffed in Christmas stockings."something about it doesn't seem right, realistic or fair. how can these people justify these lifestyles when the majority of the world barely has their most basic needs being met?
"extreme wealth is increasing while extreme poverty persists for the billion or so people who live on less than a dollar a day (and three billion people, close to half the world’s population, on less than $3 a day). Is there any – economic, social, philosophical or metaphysical – justification for it? Or has this situation reached intolerable levels and must be stopped?"...
"Things that matter most in the world have limits. Life itself has a limit. Happiness and Suffering have limits. So do Joy and Sorrow, and even Love and Hatred. Thus, there appears to be no reason (except human selfishness and greed ) why the accumulation of Excessive Wealth by a small (but growing) number of individuals should be an exception to that cardinal rule. We now realise that, to survive as a species on Planet Earth, mankind must overcome selfishness and greed, two of its worst traits of character. In order to survive, humanity must create a better world based on Peace, Justice and Solidarity. Ultimately, one thing is increasingly certain, either we shall survive together as a species, or we shall disappear together as a species. Nobody in his right mind would want Albany’s prophecy in King Lear: "Humanity must perforce prey on itself. Like monsters of the deep," to become reality."--Extreme Poverty Extreme Wealth it's like-- these ridiculously wealthy celebrities are living off of the poor people. we are the ones that pay their salaries, in the end.
Marcus Aurelius 
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