Time To Burn The 'Self Proclaimed Rich' At The Stake, Mayor of London, England

London, the city with the most multimillionaires in the world 

By Boris Johnson

17 Nov 2013

The great thing about being Mayor of London is you get to meet all sorts. It is my duty to stick up for every put-upon minority in the city – from the homeless to Irish travellers to ex-gang members to disgraced former MPs. After five years of slog, I have a fair idea where everyone is coming from.

[SIDEBAR#1:  Didn't see-read-hear ~ thoughts, feelings, words ??? about the arts, artists, artisans and other CREATIVE GENIUSES that are responsible for CULTURE.  But, then, you're not into culture - er, that is other than the CULT/S which the so called 'Self Proclaimed Rich' belong to (IE EG, Paedophila, Et Al)??!]

But there is one minority that I still behold with a benign bewilderment, and that is the very, very rich. I mean people who have so much money they can fly by private jet, and who have gin palaces moored in Puerto Banus, and who give their kids McLaren supercars for their 18th birthdays and scour the pages of the FT’s “How to Spend It” magazine for jewel-encrusted Cartier collars for their dogs.

[SIDEBAR#2:  Yes, more than likely the MASS MURDERERS of our own species were able to do what criminally insane killers do:  lie, cheat, steal, rape, pillage, plunder and kill.

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait (The secret of grand fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.)~Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot (1835)
 

A variant, "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," has appeared as a quotation of Balzac; but it may have originated in a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur (1971) by Richard O'Connor, p. 47: "Balzac maintained that behind every great fortune there is a great crime."  http://www.quotationspage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11329]

I am thinking of the type of people who never wear the same shirt twice, even though they shop in Jermyn Street, and who have other people almost everywhere to do their bidding: people to drive their cars and people to pick up their socks and people to rub their temples with eau de cologne and people to bid for the Munch etching at Christie’s.

[SIDEBAR#3:  Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.  Shakespeare.  Sarcasm may be the real here?]

Please don’t get me wrong. I neither resent nor disapprove of such zillionaires; quite the reverse. I just wonder, a bit, what it is like to be so stonkingly rich, and I wonder – as the rest of us have wondered down the ages – whether you can really expect to be any happier for having so much dosh.

I suspect that the answer, as Solon pointed out to Croesus, is not really, frankly; or no happier than the man with just enough to live on. If that is the case, and it really is true that having stupendous sums of money is very far from the same as being happy, then surely we should stop bashing the rich.

[SIDEBAR#4:  Concur.  We zillions of humans concur that the zillionaires must share since IT, IE 'Technology', makes the stuff out of thin air for them, or the WAR NATO MACHINE is the new standing army for 'them', 'those', 'they' that are 'Self-Proclaimed' RICH.  Rich may be ?? a state of mind ??  After all, we may or may not take our mind with us - definitely don't take any manufactured human 'EARTHLY manifested Riches'.]

On the contrary, the latest data suggest that we should be offering them humble and hearty thanks. It is through their restless concupiscent energy and sheer wealth-creating dynamism that we pay for an ever-growing proportion of public services. The top one per cent of earners now pay 29.8 per cent of all the income tax and National Insurance received by the Treasury. In 1979 – when Labour had a top marginal rate of 83 per cent tax after Denis Healey had earlier vowed to squeeze the rich until the pips squeaked – the top one per cent paid only 11 per cent of income tax. Now, the top 0.1 per cent – about 29,000 people – pay an amazing 14.1 per cent of all taxes.

[SIDEBAR#5:  The 'Taxes' are decided by the so called 'Self-Proclaimed Rich' via the GOVERNMENT/S that they also own.]

Nor, of course, is that the end of their contribution to the wider good. These types of people are always the first target of the charity fund-raisers, whether they are looking for a new church roof or a children’s cancer ward. These are the people who put bread on the tables of families who – if the rich didn’t invest in supercars and employ eau de cologne-dabbers – might otherwise find themselves without a breadwinner. And yet they are brow-beaten and bullied and threatened with new taxes, by everyone from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Nick Clegg.

[SIDEBAR#6:  Right!  Charities, fund-raising and churches plus children's hospitals - bread on the tables of families that are too poor to win the supercars in races dabbing cologne in ears, and of course the hillbilly bullies dressers upers in Holy cloth and then politicians for the front face of tyranny to know the true face of IT.]

The rich are resented, not so much for being rich, but for getting ever richer than the middle classes – and the trouble is that the gap is growing the whole time, and especially has done over the past 20 years. It is hard to say exactly why this is, but I will hazard a guess. Of all the self-made super-rich tycoons I have met, most belong to the following three fairly exclusive categories of human being:

(1) They tend to be well above average, if not outstanding, in their powers of mathematical, scientific or at least logical reasoning. (2) They have a great deal of energy, confidence, risk-taking instinct and a desire to make money. (3) They have had the good fortune – by luck or birth – to be able to exploit these talents.

[SIDEBAR#7:  Actually since IT took over the human brain, IT CAN DO - lots of algorithms for digital HAVE/s to them, they, those that proclaim to be RICH.  THE OLD LADY OF THREAD-NEEDLE STREET IN LONDON, you do know about the HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD and how this most magnificent SELF-MADE 'Royal' got to be the worst human in earth, now do you or do you not?  THEY HAVE ENERGY?  A great deal of energy isn't necessarily a good vibe.  VERVE can be either in the power of the light or the power of the opposite.  TOUGH to be in the 'Feng Shui' (IE, EG, BALANCE), pivotal point that always changes.  How to keep the power of reality in standing in the changing power of the universe and not become the worst human/s in earth.  BUT, RISK TAKING and of course this 'instinct' couples with the marriage of lust for 'money'.  WHAT MONEY?  This is an agreement contract that the 'Self-Proclaimed Rich' have decided with their armies and killing fields forever, is IT for them, they, those that don't have brains anymore from the many experiments to be 'more special'.  Next the reality again is luck is of course the draw of whatever the humans that choose to be the degenerate of our species and think that being birthed gave them the right to lie, cheat, steal, rape, pillage plunder and mass murder or kill selectively with DRONES owned of course via the 'Self-Proclaimed Rich'.]

So we are talking about the intersecting set in what are already three small-ish sets of people. It is easy to see how, in an ever more efficient and globalised economy, they are able to amass ever greater fortunes.

[SIDEBAR#8:  IT, IT, IT, GET IT AS THE ANSWER!  IT is technology that allows the IT monsters to control globalization known as colonization, too.]

The answer is surely not to try to stop them or curb them or punish them – but to widen those intersecting circles that they inhabit. There are kids everywhere who have a natural, if undiscovered, flair for mathematics and the mental arithmetic that business needs. They just don’t have the education to bring out that talent – which is why Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, is so right to be conducting his revolution in schools.

There are loads of kids with the chutzpah to be kings of the deal, and there are plenty of businesses that could be the billion-pound companies of the future but are currently being held back – either by the weediness of the venture capital industry in this country, or else by something as simple as excessive business rates – the single biggest issue that is raised with me by London businesses.

There is no point in wasting any more moral or mental energy in being jealous of the very rich. They are no happier than anyone else; they just have more money. We shouldn’t bother ourselves about why they want all this money, or why it is nicer to have a bath with gold taps. How does it hurt me, with my 20-year-old Toyota, if somebody else has a swish Mercedes? We both get stuck in the same traffic.

[SIDEBAR#9:  We should be killing ourselves, committing mass suicide to some comet or a Walt Disney character, and leaving all we've worked for to THEM, those that you worship and be LIE ve in.  The so called 'Self-Proclaimed Rich.'  Clearly, the inhuman, dehumanized, annihilators of our own species:

>> REJOICE Immanuel, our lives are blessed via HEAVEN, gotta die to see-get IT ~ that is, unless the trans-human/s controllers decide how the EARTH FRAUD is decided!]

We should be helping all those who can to join the ranks of the super-rich, and we should stop any bashing or moaning or preaching or bitching and simply give thanks for the prodigious sums of money that they are contributing to the tax revenues of this country, and that enable us to look after our sick and our elderly and to build roads, railways and schools.

Indeed, it is possible, as the American economist Art Laffer pointed out, that they might contribute even more if we cut their rates of tax; but it is time we recognised the heroic contribution they already make. In fact, we should stop publishing rich lists in favour of an annual list of the top 100 Tax Heroes, with automatic knighthoods for the top 10.

[SIDEBAR#10:  The TRICKLE DOWN doesn't.  TRICKLE UP?  Count on IT!]

Thanks so much for communication and we look forward to the same cooperation as the past centuries have proven are not available.

Howling at the moon.  Need some GRASSHOPPER MICE:

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/07/nirvana-never-mind-now-william-black.html

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/06/federal-reserve-system-fed-birthday.html

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/08/dear-sherrod-brown-et-al-congresses-all.html

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-partnership-police-departments-social.html

... to be continued ....