Lottery: Should he be allowed to keep the money

@vivify said
It's all a matter of how that wealth was acquired.

Were people exploited in inhumane ways like Apple does with Chinese sweatshops? Were people forced to work long hours with little pay while having to use plastic bottles to urinate in like with Amazon?

Nothing wrong with wealth as long as it was obtained ethically.

@averagejoe1 said
Vifify is thus implying that people were 'forced to work long hours'. Not in the USA they weren't. So now you are going to say that since China is on the same planet as Bezos, that Bezos made his money illegally or some such, because of the treatment of Chinese slaves?
Open a debate on that, Vivify....it has nothing to do with this question, which question clearly ...[text shortened]... If you want to talk moral, etc, open another thread.

Getting a lib to answer, pulling teeth.

@averagejoe1 said
Vifify is thus implying that people were 'forced to work long hours'. Not in the USA they weren't. So now you are going to say that since China is on the same planet as Bezos, that Bezos made his money illegally or some such, because of the treatment of Chinese slaves?
Open a debate on that, Vivify....it has nothing to do with this question, which question clearly ...[text shortened]... If you want to talk moral, etc, open another thread.

Getting a lib to answer, pulling teeth.

@averagejoe1 said
Vifify is thus implying that people were 'forced to work long hours'. Not in the USA they weren't.

@vivify said
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-describe-peak-2019-2

Amazon warehouse employees speak out about the 'brutal' reality of working during the holidays, when 60-hour weeks are mandatory and ambulance calls are common

@averagejoe1 said
By liberal reasoning, he did not earn the money. He got it off the backs of millions and millions of people. Yet you want to take money from the rich who have taken risk, and earned it

@vivify said
Your question was answered. You're just dumb. That's not an insult that's a logical conclusion from your posts.

Legal is not the same thing as ethical. It may be legal to use sweatshops that pay workers pennies a day but that's immoral. As long as wealth was acquired ethically, there's no problem. It's the *unethical* acquisition of wealth that liberals aim to stop.

@kevcvs57 said
Millions of people entered into a voluntary game of chance and winner takes all. The winner hasn’t got anything off the back of anyone but the winnings should be taxed like any other windfall profit maybe the money could be earmarked for those who suffer at the sharp end of a gambling addiction.

Since when are you in favor of taxes?

I hope this post has enlightened us all. We can cut down on a lot of posts about how much money people have. Still, we can discuss the rich people and their job creating, etc, but no need now to punish success. We all agree!!!!!

@athousandyoung said
Since when are you in favor of taxes?

@averagejoe1 said
Good point, I sorta do. After all, libs never praise what the producers have done for this country,,,,,y'all only put down the rich. KMAX says that people are exploited in order for the rich to get rich. I quite disagree. If Walmart or Amazon create thousands of jobs and provide goods and services, where in that equation is someone exploited. No one is forced to wor ...[text shortened]... e did not. Can they both keep it? (I have no idea why KMAX87 interjected taxes into the premise.)

@beowulf said
Quit lying.

Most phone scams are from India and Pakistan.

@wajoma said
There is nothing unethical about the voluntary exchange of value for value.

It becomes unethical when you try to stop it through force and threats of force.

Edit: BTW, people who trot out the trite sweatshop platitude inevitably use, wear, consume, buy, have their house full of, type on: products produced by people earning a fraction of the US minimum, which makes them...

...you guessed it, raging hypocrites.

@mchill said
So, anyway, I would like for you McHill to explain why the lottery winner gets to keep money he has not earned. which is a HUGE no-no for people like Suzianne, who rail on about the backs of others.



The lottery winner gets to keep the money because he (or she) picked the right numbers and won the lottery in accordance with the rules. I shouldn't have to spoon feed this ...[text shortened]... nd post. If you're going to quote others, then do it accurately without your crude attempts at spin.