xthetenth
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Speaking of being literate, I specifically said I couldn't wait for your next bits of wisdom, not your next round of patting yourself on the back and assuring yourself that other people are successful only because they were born lucky (and therefore it's okay to rob them.)
I'm successful because of a number of things that were only accessible because I was born lucky as hell, and I'd cheerfully pay for other people to have access to similar opportunity and be able to pay back into society if they succeed to me rather than paying the bill of cleaning up the wreckage that results from them being failed. I can think of a great many ways in which if I wasn't born lucky I would not have been successful. I am not owed the ability to enrich myself at the expense of the future of other people when my success is owed in huge fraction to the effort and intellect of other people.
I'm sure some of the concepts I express are unfamiliar to you, so if you'd like me to explain compassion, humility, or society being something other than a zero sum game, feel free to ask.
Speaking of thinking of you, I was recently. I actually heard another adult describe something as gross. That brings the grand total up to two!
Well - it was a CNN talking head. But that sorta counts as an adult. Maybe not a sane adult, but still.
Is that because you usually get described as repugnant?