When I started typing here at FMMcM, I sometimes thought that our founder, brad, was being a bit too harsh on our target. The longer I dare to dip my toe into the fetid waters of Lake McArdle, though...
So I moved to a city where the income distribution is flatter, there to bring much hilarity to my liberal friends who do not seem to understand that I can find income inequality aesthetically displeasing without wishing to make a law against it. To be sure, if America's income distribution looked like Manhattan's, even I would think that there was a problem. But despite--or perhaps because of--having grown up there, I do not think there is a civil right to live in Manhattan, nor find it particularly troublesome that 36 square miles of real estate have gotten awfully pricy [sic]."Aesthetically displeasing?" Christ on a crutch, we're talking human lives here, not aesthetics! How about a civil right to make enough money to survive, or to better oneself, or at least to better the lives of one's children? How about the chance to live w/in a reasonable distance of wherever one must work, so that one might have more influence on one's children on a daily basis than merely tucking them into bed?
And just one extreme comment from one hell of an asshole:
Note the clever equation of "welfare queens," crack-hos, & janitors. Any idea what color the commenter imagines all these people to be?The real lesson here is that you chose horrible careers. You are not remotely adding the value that you could to society and should really look to maximize the value you provide so that you can live the life that you want. Getting priced out is a big flaming sign that your values are out of whack with the larger population and you either need to accept poverty or shape up and get your act together. It's sad that Megan isn't getting her act together, as I do still like her, but it makes me happy to see Kate's tears.
As to journalists not pricing people out. HA. Compared to the welfare queens, crack-hos, and the janitors that used to makeup the population of "trendy" DC neighborhoods, politicians and journalists are even richer than i-bankers vs journalists. What will hopefully happen is all the whiners will be forced to move to Detroit or Haiti for their failures and wallowing in leftist politics.
I repeat this part, because it sounds more like "leftist" centralized planning & Soviet Russia than anything I've heard lately:
You are not remotely adding the value that you could to society and should really look to maximize the value you provide so that you can live the life that you want. Getting priced out is a big flaming sign that your values are out of whack with the larger population and you either need to accept poverty or shape up and get your act together.These people are the absolute scum of the earth.
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I made Megan go bonkers with her new "comments policy" banning the words "shut up." In response to her post claiming that Krugman has been predicting recessions for the past ten years, I told her to either cite to Krugman's writings where he made these "predictions" or--if she couldn't cite to the record--to "shut up."
What does Megan do? She has a hyssie and now lays down new rules where you can't tell people to shut up on her econblog. What a moron. Good God, she's dumber than I thought.
Reminds me of second grade when the Episcopal school I attended attempted to ban "shut up." It's hard to believe just how juvenile she is. If someone types "shut your mouth," or "stop typing," does that get banned? Or is it just "shut up?"
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