Much appreciated!
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
*politics
*quality

Your video, Ron Paul: "If it's an honest rape...", has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Your video, American Socialism (Irritable Bowl Syndrome), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Thank you for the quality!
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
This doesn't have enough votes yet.

*quality

Home Sweet Home - The Movie from Tmansugar on Vimeo.

Your video, Mike Daisey - Kill The Corporation!, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

No, I'm not saying that. I think there is ample historical evidence that wherever you have a capitalist system you will have some people living off the returns of their capital, and that not all of them will be doing anything productive with their lives. I certainly agree with your sentiment that trying to shoehorn real people into caricatures is problematic, and I for one much prefer my world to be in shades of grey rather than simply black and white.

The advantages of using Paris Hilton as your example are, as you stated, that everybody thinks she is one of the idle rich... and any evidence that she draws considerable income from other sources can easily enough be swept under the rug.
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
So I guess I should just ask point blank, are you saying that my overall premise is wrong, and that there is no such thing as "idle rich"?

And just to make myself explicit, where I was really gonna go with the argument was that there's a fundamental problem with castigating "idleness" and valorizing "work", especially if your definition of "idle" is "not receiving any income" and "work" as "receiving income from any source".

Paris Hilton is an awesome springboard from the usual "welfare queens vs. captains of industry" conversation into something a little more grounded in reality, since both welfare queens and captains of industry are just figments of our imagination. The real people we lump into those categories never live up to those caricatures.

Krafts fine products might influence me a little. But I am not on the payroll....Yet
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
>> ^BoneRemake:

Oh wait I gotcha ~!

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Mike-Daisey-on-Collaborating-with-Corporations
Lets wait for someone to isupe it shall we instead of the other thing.
it is sifted already netrunner, if you want to bring it to the peoples eyes then quality or promote it. Your no more special than anyone else, the rules apply to your videos just as Everyone else.

PEANUT BUTTER !


What are you, a corporation or something?

No, and in fact the people I can think of who lived off their inheritances tend to have done something notable as well, or I probably wouldn't have heard of them (like the impressionist painter Paul Cezanne).

When I tried a google search for more candidates, the first hit was from ancient Greece! Apollodorus, son of Pasion the slave...
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
Do you have a better example in mind? I mostly use her as my go-to example because she's a name people will recognize, associate with being ridiculously rich, has a reputation for having a crap work ethic, and a reputation for being completely out of touch with how normal people live.

I have more nuanced reasons for picking her as well, but that's really more of a springboard into a discussion about what "work ethic" really means...

I think you've picked the wrong example there. If you check out Miss Hilton's IMDB page, she hasn't spent her life sitting around the pool living off interest even though she could have.

Now you could argue that the people who have paid her modeling fees, salary, appearance fees, travel, expenses etc. have overpaid, and I wouldn't disagree, but it was their choice and that's not the argument you made.
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
[...]
Instead, the real "entitlement society" is comprised of people like Paris Hilton. They don't really work, certainly they don't do hard work, or even seem to possess valuable skills. They just collect interest, and act like they're royalty, entitled to collect the vast majority of the fruits of our labor.

Your video, NASA: 130 Years of Global Warming in 30 seconds, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 23 Badge!

Your video, U.S. v. Whistleblower Tom Drake - CBS News 60 Minutes, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Your video, Rachel Maddow fires PolitiFact, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

VERY belated congratulations on the Galaxy! There should be a party.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
*kill


Why kill you this? It funny.

Edit: It's more than funny, it's fucking hilarious! Seriously, Ricky Gervais couldn't have done it better. I can hear Andy Millman himself delivering those lines.