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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's not as deep as that. When I ask people if they really want to live in the equivalent of the worst of India, with people washing in the streets, outrageously poor and uneducated, while they drive by in a limo with security to their gated towers, they shrug.
It's really just the natural extension of the "I vote with only my wallet in mind" approach to life.
TM
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People are naturally myopic and self-important.
I was having a conversation with an investment banker, someone fairly high up at one of the top 2 banks, and they were shocked Democrats didn't seem to worry about "the investment banker vote" and seemed "to just want our money". I asked them what portion of the population they think are investment bankers and they said, half the people I know are, "I don't know what the numbers are but in NY it's a big percentage."
Now, think about the fact that people trust these folks to make investments based on data.
Such a person would never believe the sheer number of people living in poverty in NY because they don't experience it. Sure, a few people have the problem, but they live somewhere else.
