Some rich redneck buys the world's fastest executive jet - Polidicks

[quote]The jet's top speed: 704 mph -- nearly the speed of sound -- makes it arguably the world's fastest civilian aircraft.[/quote] Doesn't even break the sound barrier? What a ripoff.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39541716]I think there's quite a bit wrong with people hoarding millions/billions of dollars into banks and offshore accounts, but whatever. Even if it goes back into the economy, it's wasteful for someone of extremely high capital to act like he has no societal obligation with the huge chunk of the economic capital he holds. Power/Money/Responsibility.[/QUOTE] maybe... i'm just saying that money doesn't actually "sit in a bank". most of it(up to 90% i think, by law) is taken and used for investments so the bank can profit.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39539867]It really does get on my nerves when some people have that much money to spare and instead of using it to fuel society they do this shit.[/QUOTE] Affluence exists on a scale of relativity; You can tell a guy who's significantly richer than you that he should be using his excess money to help others rather than treat himself, but somebody significantly poorer than you might tell you the exact same thing. Whether you're using that excess money to buy a can of coke or a jet, it's still a selfish act. And there's nothing wrong with that.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39539867]It really does get on my nerves when some people have that much money to spare and instead of using it to fuel society they do this shit.[/QUOTE] That money goes somewhere, like the engineers and scientists who worked on that aircraft. I do believe people of wealth should donate their money to charity, but denying them a chance to buy something that they really want based on the fact they should use that money differently will only discourage them from helping out 'society' at all. It's their money, not ours.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39539867]It really does get on my nerves when some people have that much money to spare and instead of using it to fuel society they do this shit.[/QUOTE] "How dare people who work hard to acquire money spend it on things they want to spend it on."

Who says he doesn't donate money as well? Not to stereotype but it's likely he's Christian, which means that he regularly donates quite a bit of money to charity.

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;39542480]"How dare people who work hard to acquire money spend it on things they want to spend it on."[/QUOTE] The only place working hard can potentially bring you is simply being "well off," nobody gets fabulously rich by working harder than anybody else. You don't do 300x the work to make 300x the salary of a normal worker. You get rich by placing intelligent and/or lucky investments, maybe getting a good education, and then other people work [I]for you[/I] and you take a big cut of the output. [editline]10th February 2013[/editline] Still though at least he's spending the money and putting it back into the system

[QUOTE=lifehole;39539867]It really does get on my nerves when some people have that much money to spare and instead of using it to fuel society they do this shit.[/QUOTE] Wow lord forbid people spend their money on things they want.

He might as well buy a ride to the ISS, if he's into blasting off at ridiculous speeds.

[QUOTE=E1025;39543490]Wow lord forbid people spend their money on things they want.[/QUOTE] Society would vanish if people could do that, a nice suppression crafted out of morals, law and public embarrassment prevents that, luckily.

[QUOTE=Bleach Qeef;39540059]those arent expensive, except for boating which practocally none of them do. and a lot of rednecks arent poor its moreof a lifestyle than anything[/QUOTE] Its the sterotype that rednecks are stupid, poor, and what not. I live in Georgia and all the rednecks I know are hard working. Some are not, but most of them are.

Sadly those characteristics don't exclude each other.

tbh i prefer when really rich people spend their money on awesome and crazy shit than just hoard it and do little else with it. i'd rather say "woah that rich guy bought an uninhabited island just to blow it up" than say "woah that rich guy smartly invested his money and became even more rich, then placed said money in a bank"

[QUOTE=Trogdon;39539971]I don't know honestly. But I live in Arizona by a lot of them, and they are always shooting shit in the desert (old appliances, cars, children's toys, whatever can be shot really), but I haven't ever seen any of them in the work force. I am not trying to stereotype them as poor, but when you live in the middle of nowhere how do you have a job that allows you to do all of these things[/QUOTE] "Middle of nowhere" is full of blue collar jobs. With those kind of jobs you can jump quickly into high incomes with very little student loan debt

[QUOTE=lifehole;39539867]It really does get on my nerves when some people have that much money to spare and instead of using it to fuel society they do this shit.[/QUOTE] Why Should he spend his money on society? He made the money his own way, and I doubt society have given him anything.

Except the money.

[QUOTE=smidge146;39547528]Why Should he spend his money on society? He made the money his own way, and I doubt society have given him anything.[/QUOTE] Except for his money goes back to society. You see, life is not like Garry's Mod where we have a lovely F2 Menu which we sacrifice money to, and in return we get items we want. Items are made from harvested and refined materials... All of which came from blue collar jobs which had to get materials, and then said materials were transferred to another workplace where they were refined and made to the request of the jet builders. Finally when all this is done, you have different groups of people, whom are experienced in different trades... Putting the fucking thing together. All of these people are paid with the profit gained from producing jets, the industries which made the parts for said jets, and the people who harvested the materials for these parts. Welcome to society.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39539867]It really does get on my nerves when some people have that much money to spare and instead of using it to fuel society they do this shit.[/QUOTE] that $65million goes back into the economy

[QUOTE=Bleach Qeef;39540059]those arent expensive, except for boating which practocally none of them do. and a lot of rednecks arent poor its moreof a lifestyle than anything[/QUOTE] We actually did a condenser replacement for a guy out here recently (I do HVAC installations for a living). Dude lived out in the middle of BFE in one of the most run-down trailer houses I've seen, he drives a beat-up old Ford pick-up, and we were replacing his old condenser with one he bought second-handed. Typical laid-back hard-working beer-chugging critter-shootin' red-neck. Turns out he owns a company called PBI Parlor Systems, a company that specializes in designing and building dairy farm facilities, which even does business outside the USA in places such as Japan and Germany. He owns 17 patents, and would've owned 19 but he sold two of them to a company over-seas. A millionaire. My mind was blown needless to say.

[QUOTE=smidge146;39547528]Why Should he spend his money on society? He made the money his own way, and I doubt society have given him anything.[/QUOTE] Yeah society didn't give him anything, except all of his money. Although as long as he pays taxes I couldn't care less how he spends his money.

This is like 100mph faster than average small jet.