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Default Re: Civilization collapses as makers Go Galt! Yacht Parade cancelled! - 08-03-2013, 02:52 PM

Every summer when I'm roughing it at the cottage I always bring smiles to my neighbours, as I "share the wealth" the capitalist way. When I'm at my cottage I'm always letting people enjoy the sound of my children's $23,200 Yamaha FX Cruiser SHO jet-skis, and of course my ~$300,000 Goldmund Epilogue Signature Audio System, which the neighbours get to enjoy almost 24/7. And of course they get free visits from my $600,000 purebred Tibetan Mastiff, who can kill any bears that come near and as a bonus even fertilizes their lawns for them.



The ungrateful losers hardly ever thank me though. I don't let the small dogs leave the house, but everyone around gets to hear them yapping day and night, free of charge. They don't thank me for that, either.

When I accidentally send golf balls onto their property I don't even leave tracks when I come to pick them up, thanks to my investing in a $58,000 hovercraft-golf-cart:



And to keep bugs away I have a fire constantly making smoke, which I generously donate to everyone downwind. Do they even know how much money I have to have to spend, and how many favors you have to call in, to get African Blackwood smuggled from Tanzania? It's $25,000 for a pickup-truck load, but do you ever heard them thanking me? (Yeah I know the smoke smells like I'm burning tires but that's why it keeps the bugs away so well.)

This disgusting ingratitude is going to eventually destroy America, you're going to see us turning from a mighty power into a 3rd-world cesspit like what happened to Great Britain. I don't usually trust wikipeda, but the page on the fall of the Country House sums it up well. In the beginning, British mansions were so lavish they literally put oriental despots to shame:
Trentham Hall...was so lavish that the Shah of Persia in 1873 remarked to the future King Edward VII, of their host "too grand for a subject, you'll have to have his head off when you come to the throne."


But then:

...The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain...has been described as a cultural tragedy...often demoralised and impoverished owners... the demolition of the ancestral seat, strongly entwined with the family's history and identity...

Before the 19th century, the British upper classes enjoyed a life relatively free from taxation....by the mid-20th century they had no power and were suffering heavy taxation....ignorance of the nation's heritage was a large contributory factor to the indifference that met the destruction....In addition, death duties were raised to all-time highs by the new Labour Government that swept into power in 1945; this hit Britain's aristocracy hard. These factors, coupled with a decrease in people available or willing to work as servants, left the owners of country houses facing major problems...the law was powerless...the severely impoverished Duke Of Marlborough, sought American heiresses....punitive to a social class able to live comfortably off inherited wealth ...Death duties, however, slowly increased and became a serious problem....an act of sheer class-war vindictiveness...the socialist government to wrest the house from its owner, the Earl Fitzwilliam, and convert the architecturally important house for "homeless industrial families"...

To some owners, the principal house was more than just a dwelling; built when the family was at the height of its power, wealth and glory, it represented the family's history and status. It was an integral part of the family's being and needed to be preserved and retained by the family, even if this meant "entering trade" [working] a prospect which would have been unthinkable just a few years earlier.
This is just too depressing, I can't go on.


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