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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No, you fucking douchebag. Listen. The point is simple. Corporate nannyship stunts people from taking chances. We are winding up with a nation of people who want to do just waht they need to have $2mil put aside and slide off to golf land in old age. Thats nice fpor them, and I can't besmitrch them. But that stunts innovation. When people are left in more do or die scenarios, or forced to invest their money on their own, they tend to learn. they tend to think. they tend to be more than the vapid imbeciles who know nothing but relaity television and vesting dates. My point was larger than a mere shot at pensions. Pensions are just another vehicle which seems to allow people to avoid risk. Should everyone take risk? No. But I think a lot more of us could.
But please, Burger, sit on your ass and preach to me about how you've got ita ll figured out. You (a) don't know jack about my finance or my Maker's Mark supply and (b) are another goddamned risk aversive twit. Its easy as shit to fire darts at the guy who's picking on the conventional wisdom. Thats neither creative or brave, but utterly consistent.
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Yeah, we've really stifled innovation in this country through overly generous retirement plans. No one's willing to take risks at all, and we're all suffering for it. I get it Sebby. Greed is good. Greed works. But the country is filled with people like me, sitting on their ass, waiting for the retirement checks to start flowing. I'm not out there grabbing a piece of the america dream--my apologies to you for not innovating on your behalf.
We certainly don't have enough people thinking they'll hit the jackpot of the NBA, , American Idol, or the Lottery. And we're all better off for the many fools who do try.
Yeah. Innovation and risk aren't rewarded enough as it is. In fact, just the other day I was talking to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and some others. And they were lamenting the fact that no one wants to work hard, come up with a good idea, and sell it.
I do know this--you're apparently ready to give the standard partner speech about "associates these days".
