"We'd like you to work hard to spread free entertainment" isn't a compelling cause. Who would have guessed that.

Yeah except authors like to do things like "eat" and "wear clothes" and "have somewhere to live" and I'm guessing you can't afford to provide that for all of them, so we needed another system while the technology caught up.

That's cool and all, "live" all you want - but don't go bitching that you don't have that good life you "deserve."

The single menu bar is, to me, garbage, and I say this as a Mac user. Love on the idea of an infinite target till the end of time, but the modern mouse is a precision tool and it doesn't require significantly more effort or time to hit an in-window menu.

I have a serious problem with anyone who believes I must act for the benefit of society as a whole, not the least part of which no one is qualified to judge that benefit.

No one is responsible for your assumptions, and there's no logical way you can ever push that responsibility to any other human being.

I laughed

You aren't mentioning the someone making 40,000 accepting a loan he knew he couldn't pay back, which is equally unconscionable. Let's not be intellectually dishonest here.

The problem here is simple. There are the have-lots, who have lots of stuff, then there are the want-lots, who want to have lots of stuff. Trouble is, the want-lots want the have-lots to somehow be forced to supply the stuff. Apparently because they feel that, having been born, they've done everything they need to do and they are now entitled to everything they want. I think. I'm not super clear on that part yet, no one has actually articulated anything beyond "I WANT LOTS OF STUFF."

Basically, this is what happens when coddled kids come of age.

How are the people with no money paying for the BMWs?

It's perspectives like yours that make me feel like dismissing the whole thing as a bunch of whiners makes the most sense.

How many people ran the US following the revolution? Not even everyone had franchise back then. Hell, a large segment of the population didn't even count as legal persons.

Since this "99%" is demanding that "the 1%" take care of them, I'm pretty sure you've hit the nail on the head.

Nothing you do will ever stop there from being powerful leaders who control most of the power. Being a majority is meaningless, because someone will simply rise to control that majority again.

Much like any other religion, populism never does anything meaningful, but that never stops "The People" from believing in it.

Wow, this kid has fanboys already?

LOL oh Slashdot, never change, never change...