Re:Why are artists poor?
by cwan on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @02:26PM
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Not what I said, but many rich people are entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is one of the fastest ways to income mobility. It's also one of the more difficult ones. That being said, other high income earners tend to also need to be highly creative - from senior managers to consultants, to yes, sometimes even bankers (sometimes unfortunately so). To suggest however that "rich people are so uncreative" is however not only overstating the point/post but arguably, rather untrue.
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I didn't suggest that, I was merely pointing out that your reply didn't make much sense.
> Many rich people are entrepreneurs.
Yes, and many rich people aren't, so what.
> Entrepreneurship is one of the fastest ways to income mobility.
Agree, but no one was talking about entrepreneurs, you just injected it when he said "rich".
> That being said, other high income earners tend to also need to be highly creative
No one said anything about high income earners either. Rich is about net worth, not about income. Lots of trust fund baby's out there who could hardly be called high income earners as if they did something for it.
He trolled you with a vague statement and you swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker and injected your own ideas about what he meant to attack. You're tearing down the straw-man you setup yourself.
Er no, you're veering this discussion to the silly. I was responding to his original claim and why my response wasn't "moving the goal post" as you state. If you can't see that there is a relationship between high income earners and rich people (and my distinction in my original comment or even that entrepreneurs can be a significant subset of rich people/high income earners), I'm afraid there's nothing further useful to say.