If you were offered a huge amount of money...

[Lanky Wanker]

From a left wing point of view, what would your reaction be? Seeing as the majority of us are generally opposed to the idea of money or being x10 richer than someone else, what would you do with a huge amount of money? I've been thinking about this for a while.

[Per Levy]

From a left wing point of view, what would your reaction be? Seeing as the majority of us are generally opposed to the idea of money or being x10 richer than someone else, what would you do with a huge amount of money?

personally i would keep it, and use it to make the live of my gf and me better(we're both pretty poor) + giving some of it to family members and friends who might need some. also i would probally make my amazon wishlist a bit smaller, there are so many books on there and i just dont have the money to buy any of them.

[Leftie]

If some guy just walked up to me and gave me a load of money, I would probably donate it all to charitable organisations and revolutionary movements as well as a few gifts for close family and friends.

Unless I was having financial problems at the time in which case I would probably keep a bit more for myself.

[The Man]

I'd give around 15% to some sort of Communist/Socialist organization and then the rest for paying off rent and bills etc

[Dr Mindbender]

None of the above, i would invest the money strategically for the good of my family and local community.

[727Goon]

Spend it all because when you die you cant take it with you.

Nah I'd probably just buy a really nice house for my family and save the rest of it.

[Dr Mindbender]

Spend it all because when you die you cant take it with you.
Nope but you can alleviate the misery of others.

[727Goon]

Philanthropy doesn't do shit, and do I look like Bill Gates?
#RacksOnRacksOnRacks

[Octavian]

I don't like fancy things so I would probably spend it on what I need and maybe try and invest it into something that could benefit people who are poorer.


personally i would keep it, and use it to make the live of my gf and me better(we're both pretty poor) + giving some of it to family members and friends who might need some. also i would probally make my amazon wishlist a bit smaller, there are so many books on there and i just dont have the money to buy any of them.
If you want to read a lot of books but are strapped for cash you could always read them/download them off the internet.

[AmericanCommie421]

I would probably give some away keep some for important things when needed.

[727Goon]

Oh and I'd make a music video of me stunting hard af just to post on here when somebody has a problem with my position on Afghanistan. It would go down kind of like this:


Hey you're an imperialist we have to uphold the Taliban as the Pashtun people's vehicle of resistance

(Pretend this is my video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_PTrKnE9jw

swag

[∞]

30% of you people are liars.

[Leftie]

30% of you people are liars.

:blushing:

I can assure you, I'm telling the truth. As a matter of principle, the only money I would spend on my own pleasure would be money I worked to get, unless I was truly in need.

[bcbm]

i would never fucking work again and drink good beers and eat out at fancy restaurants every night

[Rusty Shackleford]

how much we talking here? 100-200 dollars?

[Sam_b]

This is all very abstract. I mean, money in itself does not change one's relation to the labour market per se. It also depends on what you mean by 'huge' amounts of money. To me, £1000 is a huge amount of money. Am I donating it? Almost certainly not. These threads seem to happen all the time on leftist sides and I think some people try and painfully point out how 'communist' or how 'working class' they are when given a situation where 99% are most likely taking the money and running with it.

If we're talking hundreds of thousands the situation is slightly different. I'm buying a house. I'm giving money to my parents. I'm sure as hell taking a year out of work and study to do things that I never thought I could. No act of philanthropy is going to dent the capitalist system - thats not saying I do not support charities, but i'd do something more concrete. I'd probably set up strike funds for comrades.

[danyboy27]

create a worker cooperative.

[RGacky3]

I mean, money in itself does not change one's relation to the labour market per se.

If you have enough to start a buisiness, or live off Capital gains then yes it does.

I'd probably invest it, give some of it to charity, and save some too.

It depends how much really.

[Tomhet]

I'd keep alot of it and buy nice things..

[#FF0000]

If you have enough to start a buisiness, or live off Capital gains then yes it does.

It is so easy to get loans and you don't even need that much depending on the business.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

None of the above, i would invest the money strategically for the good of my family and local community.

I wish I could say this but I'm terrible with money. Perhaps if I had a friend with a good mind for this kind of thing I would call on them, maybe I would send a PM to Dr Mindbender and ask for some tips.

What's more likely though is that I'd continue to live as I do now, I generally spend what I need (I normally don't have enough to do this). If I treat myself its normally to a book, film or CD - don't really buy clothes or anything and if I do, they're from a charity shop anyway. I'm a generous guy too and I like to help people out so I guess I could do that a bit more. Perhaps a decent amount would go to the homeless charities local to me, and other decent social organizations.

[#FF0000]

I'd put a lot of it away. Probably wouldn't move or anything -- just fix up the house I have now.

Or I would get a boat and live on it.

[RedSunRising]

Buy a castle in Romania and loads of replica mediavel dresses. LOL!

Its a stupid question.

[#FF0000]

Buy a castle in Romania and loads of replica mediavel dresses. LOL!

Oh goddamn that's another good idea.

I'd keep the money hidden away or in a bank or something so I can travel to historic sites.

[Magón]

I'd buy a war surplus tank off the black market, and roll it down to those fat cats on Wall Street. :p

Or buy myself an unlimited timed trip around the world. :thumbup1:

[Sam_b]

If you have enough to start a buisiness, or live off Capital gains then yes it does.


I mean, money in itself does not change one's relation to the labour market per se.

.

[Welshy]

Serious answer: depending on the amount of money, I would use it by myself a car, pay off bills, get myself a pet cat, and save up the rest for things like grad school and a rainy day fund.

Not serious answer: spend it on paintball guns, accessories for the paintball guns, brand new camo, paintballs, and other paintball supplies. Then I would play paintball every weekend until I'm too tired and bruised to do anything.

[Die Rote Fahne]

I'd keep it. I'm working class...I can't exactly afford to give away my money. Especially when my parents struggle, let alone me.

[xub3rn00dlex]

I'd buy a war surplus tank off the black market, and roll it down to those fat cats on Wall Street. :p

Or buy myself an unlimited timed trip around the world. :thumbup1:

I second that. I'd prefer a taking a Hind to it though. Give me Gates' fortune, and I will start arming and supplying the revolutionary war tomorrow! :D

[Bright Banana Beard]

i buy a small flat house in this city, get a crappy motorbicycle, and buys beers, weeds, and party hard.

[Public Domain]

BS my way into the bourgeois scene and cause 'messes'

[Comrade_Oscar]

I would donate the money or give it to a true revolutionary party in a Latin American country. I would also use the money to move out of the United States.

[Public Domain]

In seriousness, I'd use the money to get the family 'off the grid'. The rest would likely go to the financially starving comrades in my country.

Oh, and weed, of course.

[Ocean Seal]

I'd buy Fox News and turn it into a leftist tv station. :thumbup1:

[PhoenixAsh]

Depends on the amount of cash we are talking about. First things first.

I am going to put away cash for my parents for when they grow up and need taking care off.

Then I will put money away for a rainy day. Go back the university.

I will put some money aside for the college for my nephews.

Then there is this friend who has some money issues. So I will probably help him get back on his feet.

Then there is this little girl in the cancer ward who I met when I was there and read to every once in a while...she will probably not be here next year, She has never seen a real lion and want to. So I'll make damned sure she does.

Then there is a friend of mine who is going to marry but doesn't have the cash to make something of it. So I'll solve that.

I have a friend who needs to go to a clinic but can't aford a good one. So...thats probably going to take a bit.

Another friend has some problems with his house but no money to fix it and a baby on the way...so...

O...and I have another friend who is brilliant...but married way too soon because he managed to get his gf pregnant when he was 15 married by queens exception. And what do you know...they get three at once. Girlfriend runs of with another guy and moves to Australia. Nice...stuck in a dead end job with three kids. No cash. So I will see what I can do there...and perhaps get him into college which he really, really wants to do.

And one of my friends in Moscow lost her job. Single mom. So she is currently living with her brotehr in a two bedroom apartment. So that needs to change.


....and I have to buy a Porche...a white one. And go meet this girl who didn't want to date me because I didn't have one...and crash it right in front of her eyes. Just for the hell of it.

[727Goon]

Alright, I thought it through, heres what I'd really do if I came into money. First I'd get property on the motherfuckin waterfront bruh. Then Id get a yach, and hire get Somalian niggas as it's crew. One by one, I'd take over rich people's boats and conscript them into my pirate army. When I've taken enough boats, I'll blockade the fuck out of the Eastern seaboard and give President Obama a list of demands including:
1) Reparations for slavery
2) My face on the million dollar bill
3) A record deal on OFWGKTA records
4) A single with Wiz, Tyler the Creator, Waka and Lil B on the track, with Biggie being brought back from the dead to write my lyrics so I have the best part
5) Unlimited free Arizonas for life
6) Movie rights to my biopic and an unlimited budget
7) I get to fight Glenn Beck
8) Hater blockers. Not shades, I want Le'Ron Mcclain, Greg Jones, Justin Griffith and pretty much every other fullback in the NFL to follow me around and bang the fuck out of a hater if they see one.
9) My own clothing line. It will be called swag fits and it will live up to its name.
10) The right to legally urinate wherever the fuck I want to.
11) A night with Alicia Keys.
12) Air force one. I'm gonna rename it Air Force Swag and I'm gonna swag the fuck out of it.
13) The shoe that was thrown at George W Bush
14) My own reality show. It's gonna be called The Journeyman but it's just gonna be a bunch of up and coming boxers and hood niggas who will compete for the chance to go toe to toe with a real live CEO.
15) An unlimited supply of CEO's for my reality show.
16) An animated sitcom about my life, created by Aaron McGruder

Once Obama give into my demands, I'll become a folk hero and people will probably think of me as a cross between Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Jesus, instead of "that asshole who's stealing everybody's boats".

[727Goon]

Oh and I would "make it rain" in threads I don't like by spamming youtube videos of me making it rain in the club. I think that's about all I'd do.

[Leftsolidarity]

I'd end up using to start some sort of relief project in my city (like the BPP's Breakfast program) and keep enough so that me and my gf/bandmates can pay rent and get food. I don't see much use for money past that to be honest.

[ImStalinist]

I would share it, give it to charity, use it to improve my community and other un-American stuff.

[NewLeft]

I would become a capitalist.. Screw this socialist shit.

Not serious..

[∞]

I would share it, give it to charity, use it to improve my community and other un-American stuff.

I am disappointed, a real Stalinist would spend that money on eliminating rivals inside of his communist party.

[∞]

I would share it, give it to charity, use it to improve my community and other un-American stuff.

Or one of these
http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/0013sfc9.jpeg

[Decolonize The Left]

I would take all the money and divide it absolutely evenly between the entire working class. Like 1/4 of a cent per person.

That, or I'd buy all the capitalist's houses and convert them into poo containers.

That, or I'd buy all the capitalist's capital and sell it back to them over time with interest until I impoverished them all, then I'd buy the capital again and be a just ruler in the name of the working class.

That or I'd buy all the golf courses and turn them over to the homeless.

I'm hella more prole then you guys.

- August

[Revolution starts with U]

Anybody who didn't say "I would put my money to work for me" is dumb.
I already know what i'm doing with it. Im investing it so as to free myself from the bonds of proletarianship. Then I'm using my free time to focus on more important things; worker actions, study, and travel. Then once I can start using the dividends, I'm starting co-ops, strike funds, and leftist think tanks.

You aren't helping anybody, least of all yourself, if you just spend yourself back into bankruptcy.

[Zav]

I would give it to various Socialist, Anarchist, and Environmentalist organisations. I have no need for large amounts of money.

[∞]

I would give it to various Socialist, Anarchist, and Environmentalist organisations. I have no need for large amounts of money.

Thats a lie.

[Kamos]

Depends on how much I get. I'd certainly keep a part of it for myself, though. No need to be pretentious - lack of money doesn't make me any more of a communist. I'd donate whatever I think I can do without to charity.

[RGacky3]

It is so easy to get loans and you don't even need that much depending on the business.

Well you need to be able to live without an income for a while, which is hard for most everyone, you also need to be prepared to take losses for a while.

[VirgJans12]

Let's say this huge amount was 25 million euro's. I'd pay off the houses and debts of me and my family (it's not too much: me, mom/dad, sister, aunt, two uncles, maybe some for my nephew when he starts living on himself). I'd also give them like 25K for the bank each. That's 1.4 million so far.

I'd probably use 15 million to set up a charity that helps 3rd world countries or so. And my neighborhood.

The other 8.6 million would go to a long-term investing account. For my kids, families kids, supporting leftist revolutions, etc.

[SacRedMan]

Donate it all to some kind of charity/organisation you support

I don't trust them anymore.

[Octavian]

On another note. I could spend it to fund a small army of radical leftists and lead them in the take over of a small island nation thus declaring it revleftia and establishing a tropical socialist paradise.

[VirgJans12]

On another note. I could spend it to fund a small army of radical leftists and lead them in the take over of a small island nation thus declaring it revleftia and establishing a tropical socialist paradise.

I'm in. Let's take over Cyprus. The Greek half will support us anyways :thumbup1:.

[Hebrew Hammer]

Spend it all because when you die you cant take it with you.

Poppycock, everyone knows if you get buried with it, you will have it in the afterlife. I personally would get a nicer place, buy a ring, invest it, donate money to some groups I feel deserve it, maybe go on vacation, who knows. Depressing ass question.

[IndependentCitizen]

Hell, I'd take it. Obviously, I'd use it for good. Donate some to charity, socialist movements, paying off my parent's debt and etc. I'd like to keep some for myself so that I can have an opportunity to live comfortably. But that'd come after helping others out.

[redSHARP]

i would probably use it to for a few things. donate some to a few groups (radical and non-radical), and buy a crap ton of smokes.

[∞]

Give it all to Revleft.

[ZeroNowhere]

I don't react to life situations from a 'left point of view'.

On a less serious note, I would take the money and then abolish it.

[Devrim]

i would never fucking work again and drink good beers and eat out at fancy restaurants every night

It is just so obvious.


To me, £1000 is a huge amount of money. Am I donating it? Almost certainly not.

I feel really sorry for you now, Sam.

Devrim

[Rafiq]

I would simply never work, buy a flying home (assuming this is in the future) and fly across the Earth, parachuting down to my desired location, when needed.

[Leftsolidarity]

I would simply never work, buy a flying home (assuming this is in the future) and fly across the Earth, parachuting down to my desired location, when needed.
How would you get back inside:confused:

[PhoenixAsh]

How would you get back inside:confused:


It lands and picks you up. The parachuting is just more awesome. Either that or Scotty will do it.

[727Goon]

Anybody who didn't say "I would put my money to work for me" is dumb.
I already know what i'm doing with it. Im investing it so as to free myself from the bonds of proletarianship. Then I'm using my free time to focus on more important things; worker actions, study, and travel. Then once I can start using the dividends, I'm starting co-ops, strike funds, and leftist think tanks.

You aren't helping anybody, least of all yourself, if you just spend yourself back into bankruptcy.

Fuck that if you've already got money you're not working class anymore. Nigga rich > making your money work for you.

[gorillafuck]

I'd make sure I get a job that I like, and once that happens I'd probably give a lot of it to charity and a lot to my friends and keep some in case something bad happened, also I'd get a really cool apartment because I don't want kids so I don't want a house.

it depends how much money it is though.

[RGacky3]

Fuck that if you've already got money you're not working class anymore. Nigga rich > making your money work for you.

Who WANTS to be working class under capitalism?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Yeah depends on the amount of money. If someone gave me $1,000 - I'd use it to pay down debt and blow some of it on things I've wanted but didn't think it was worth saving for like an ipad or something. $10,000 a nice vacation, put some away for emergencies and donate some to causes I want to support. Over a million? Then I'd probably quit my job. Several million, then I'd quit my job, give money to family, give money to radical causes and maybe try and set up some kind of local thing that I want to see happen like a organizing center/auditorium/victory mosque:lol: in East Oakland to provide a place for immigrant rights and radical groups to use (since everything else in Oakland tends to be organized either through churches or NGOs). That or a movie theater with Praxis.

[Revolution starts with U]

Fuck that if you've already got money you're not working class anymore. Nigga rich > making your money work for you.
We should not be in the business of glorifying the position of the proletariat. That would be like saying "psssh, bein a slave > bein free."
When we abolish the class system, it is impossible to abolish the class sytem and remain the proletariat. Either everyone has ownership of the means of production, or we have a class system. But we can't have both.
JayZ is pretty ghetto fab (nigga rich is derogatory, how many times must I tell you that ;)), but he figured out how not to spend himself back into bankruptcy like MC Hammer :thumbup1:


Who WANTS to be working class under capitalism?
exactly. We're not here to make everyone proles... that's literally impossible (how can there be proles if there are no bourg). In essence, we seek to make everyone a bourg, thereby aboloshing the dominant position of individual bourgeoisie.

PS: Was my original comment removed?

[XenoLair]

Its hard to start a revolution without any financial support. If it means we can overthrow capitalism with the very thing its made of, of course I'd take it.

[RGacky3]

BTW, what the hell does "Nigga-Rich" even mean, other than a way to be derogetory. Is Keneth Chenault (CEO of American express) "Nigga Rich?"

[Revolution starts with U]

No man, he's honkey rich....? :confused::bored::crying:

[RGacky3]

So he's a black guy thats Honkey Rich .... I guess Kid Rock is Nigga rich though right?

[hatzel]

Its hard to start a revolution without any financial support. If it means we can overthrow capitalism with the very thing its made of, of course I'd take it.

Something tells me we'll need a bit more than the wealth of an individual to even make a dent in the capitalist system...money can't buy you love and all that jazz...

[727Goon]

Flocka is nigga rich, he even says it in grove street party. Being nigga rich isnt a derogatory term, unless you think nigga is, it just means you enjoy your money and know where you came from. Being rich in general means your not a prole though.

[VirgJans12]

Flocka is nigga rich, he even says it in grove street party. Being nigga rich isnt a derogatory term, unless you think nigga is, it just means you enjoy your money and know where you came from. Being rich in general means your not a prole though.

Being rich and being proletarian have noting to do with each other. You're bourgeoisie if you own production capital and/or have people working for you. If not, you're proletarian.

[727Goon]

If you arent exploited for your labor your not proletarian. So if your living off money you got as a gift and you dont have to work your not prole.

[727Goon]

BTW, what the hell does "Nigga-Rich" even mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylQ6U8xP9I4

That's what nigga rich is.

[redSHARP]

nigga rich could be interpreted as a derogatory thing, but in general is a typical slang word that is not meant to be derogatory. however, ni**er rich is a derogatory statement, which means someone would be paid friday, and spend all their money on drugs/booze by Saturday morning. a typical phrase used in the south United States during the 1870's-present to put down the African American community. it is also found in urban areas in the US.

[Revolution starts with U]

Nigga is always derogatory in my book.
But that aside, on to the more important question: What's so great about being a prole? Isn't the whole point to stop being exploited for our labor?
No true scotsman fallacy, that's the world you live in, Goon.

[Summerspeaker]

I'd donate most of it to la causa but keep a little in reserve just in case.

[Franz Fanonipants]

light hella blunts w/it erryday

[hatzel]

No true scotsman fallacy, that's the world you live in, Goon.

Oi, oi, oi...so you don't agree with him, that's still no reason to call him a goon! :laugh:

[727Goon]

Nigga is always derogatory in my book.

Not really your place to say that tho.


But that aside, on to the more important question: What's so great about being a prole? Isn't the whole point to stop being exploited for our labor?

Yeah and if your not working cause you just got a bunch of money you're not being exploited for your labor. Nobody said anything's great about being a prole, it fucking sucks.

[RGacky3]

Flocka is nigga rich, he even says it in grove street party.

He's got alota money, and *****es want it from him.

His partner on da pill and his oda partner drunk and flocka is tryin to get fucked up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylQ6U8xP9I4 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylQ6U8xP9I4)

That's what nigga rich is.

So basically an idiot.

Thats why its derogatory, because rich nigga refers to "rappers" or gangsters saying hood rich, or whatever, i.e. people who are rich, and also stupid, irresponsible and so on, basically the nigga part means idiot, and the rich part means money, thats why its derogatory.

When it comes to Rock Stars and/or Bikers or whatever, that do the same thing, they don't add a racial component (even though they are many times rich and stupid).

Heres Chris rock on "nigga rich"

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Not really your place to say that tho.


Neither is it yours.


Nigga rich > making your money work for you.

No it does'nt, people who make the money work for them are wealthy, people who don't are rich, I'd rather be wealthy.

[727Goon]

He's got alota money, and *****es *count it for him.

His partner on *a pill and his oda partner drunk and flocka is tryin to get fucked up.

Fixed your post. I don't think Waka's boy is on birth control.


So basically an idiot.

Thats why its derogatory, because rich nigga refers to "rappers" or gangsters saying hood rich, or whatever, i.e. people who are rich, and also stupid, irresponsible and so on, basically the nigga part means idiot, and the rich part means money, thats why its derogatory.

When it comes to Rock Stars and/or Bikers or whatever, that do the same thing, they don't add a racial component (even though they are many times rich and stupid).So basically you're a racist.


Heres Chris rock on "nigga rich" Yeah the Nation of Islam basically made the same argument and they were just as wrong.


Neither is it yours.
Well its my race so yeah it is.


No it does'nt, people who make the money work for them are wealthy, people who don't are rich, I'd rather be wealthy.I'd rather enjoy my money then invest it in a bunch of bullshit.

[RGacky3]

So basically you're a racist.


Is that what you got from the post? Re-read it. Why do they call Waka Flacka nigga rich, but not the CEO of American express?


Yeah the Nation of Islam basically made the same argument and they were just as wrong.


I don't think they are, there is a diffference between rich and wealthy, as Chris Rock says, "Shack is rich, the white guy who writes his checks is wealthy."


Well its my race so yeah it is.


Your not the only one, I'm Mexican, I don't get to decide what is and what is not offensive for Mexicans.


I'd rather enjoy my money then invest it in a bunch of bullshit.

Sure, assuming your not gonna live long and don't have any children, thats a great idea.

[black magick hustla]

one of my friends graduated as a chem engineer and works for oil company and makes 70k and he is 22. i asked him what are you gonna do with that kind of money, you are single and childless. and he just smiled and said "i will have very pretty ladyfriends and snow in my nostrils".

i would just buy a brewery and make it my office and never work

[Quail]

This is a bit of a flawed poll in that it doesn't allow you to say you'd donate some money and keep it for yourself, amounts depending on the amount of money you were offered. If I was offered a free few grand, I'd probably keep it for myself, maybe buy my friends some drinks and have a party. If it was hundreds of thousands or millions, I'd pay off my student loans, get somewhere nice to live with a garden and a balcony and mostly just save the rest. I'd probably use some of it to support the AF, and some to help out my friends.

[Ele'ill]

I would 'do good leftist stuff' with the portion not used to perpetually support myself for the rest of my life.

[Revolution starts with U]

Not really your place to say that tho.
Why not? Don't you realize the inherent racism in saying it's not my place because you assume I'm white? I'm a human. If it deals with humans, it's my business.
Mick is derogatory too. So are polish jokes... is that the only racism I'm allowed to comment on? :rolleyes:
God you're such a racist...




Yeah and if your not working cause you just got a bunch of money you're not being exploited for your labor. Nobody said anything's great about being a prole, it fucking sucks.
Then why glorify being "nigga rich" (i.e frivolous with your money)?

[Revolution starts with U]

So basically you're a racist.
:rolleyes: Ya, he's racist because he's against people being frivolous with their money....


Well its my race so yeah it is.
It's not your race. The race doesn't even exist. But thanks for giving real racists all the justification they need :rolleyes:


I'd rather enjoy my money then invest it in a bunch of bullshit.
If you invest it you can still enjoy your money without spending yourself into bankruptcy. Don't be an idiot.

[Rss]

Guns. Lots of guns. And ammo. Explosives too.

[727Goon]

Why not? Don't you realize the inherent racism in saying it's not my place because you assume I'm white? I'm a human. If it deals with humans, it's my business.
Mick is derogatory too. So are polish jokes... is that the only racism I'm allowed to comment on? :rolleyes:
God you're such a racist...

I think you've said in some other thread that you're an "Irish" American ie white af. If I choose to identify as a nigga you as a white man have no business telling me not to. Or if you're black and you're a Bill Cosby ass nigga, fuck you.



Then why glorify being "nigga rich" (i.e frivolous with your money)?

Nigga rich isn't being frivolous if you actually have money.

[727Goon]

Is that what you got from the post? Re-read it. Why do they call Waka Flacka nigga rich, but not the CEO of American express?

Because he spends his money on ice and whips and shit and come from the hood whereas the other dude didn't. He's not irresponsible with his money as far as I know, he just gets it how he live.



I don't think they are, there is a diffference between rich and wealthy, as Chris Rock says, "Shack is rich, the white guy who writes his checks is wealthy."

Nah it's bullshit although I guess athletes are technically working class. The NOI's line supports black capitalism though, which is dumb.



Your not the only one, I'm Mexican, I don't get to decide what is and what is not offensive for Mexicans.


I thought you were Dutch or some shit. Anyways I identify as a nigga and no one has the right to tell me I cant, especially someone in another country who has no idea what its like to be black in america.



Sure, assuming your not gonna live long and don't have any children, thats a great idea.

I mean if we're talking a lot of money I could easily provide for my family and at the same time put ice on my wrist and nice whips in the driveway.

[Spartacus.]

From a left wing point of view, what would your reaction be? Seeing as the majority of us are generally opposed to the idea of money or being x10 richer than someone else, what would you do with a huge amount of money? I've been thinking about this for a while.


I would invest all my money in building a giant, golden statue to our Glorious Leader Joseph Stalin. :)

[727Goon]

:rolleyes: Ya, he's racist because he's against people being frivolous with their money....

He buys into the racist neo-con "Dur hur rappers r dumb" shit.



It's not your race. The race doesn't even exist. But thanks for giving real racists all the justification they need :rolleyes:


You dont think race exists as a social construct?


If you invest it you can still enjoy your money without spending yourself into bankruptcy. Don't be an idiot.

Too bad the stock markets a huge gamble so I don't know how investing it is any more responsible than not. And nobodies saying anything about spending into bankruptcy.

[Revolution starts with U]

I think you've said in some other thread that you're an "Irish" American ie white af.If you have to classify people as such, I am of predominantly Irish and Polish descent.


If I choose to identify as a nigga you as a white man have no business telling me not to. Or if you're black and you're a Bill Cosby ass nigga, fuck you.You're either incredibly thick headed (which would explain why you're such a racist), or incredibly dumb.
Why does my supposed whiteness have anything to do with it? I have no business telling you not to identify as a "nigga," this is true... AS A HUMAN. Being a supposed white man plays no role in the matter.
But as a human, I do have business telling you "nigga" is derogatory, at least in my opinion.
Somewhere back there I come from Africa too.






Nigga rich isn't being frivolous if you actually have money.Tell that to MC Hammer and the countless other frivolous millionaires who had tons of money and went broke.
Money is not wealth. You think Bill Gates doesn't enjoy his money?


He buys into the racist neo-con "Dur hur rappers r dumb" shit.I think it's more "hurr durr alcoholic womanizing junkie pimp wannabes are dumb."




You dont think race exists as a social construct?I think that is all it exists as. And if I want to identify as black, that is perfectly within my right.
But I also think that thinking "black" and "white" are significant is derogatory and racist (that's poorly worded. I think it is crucial to recognize that racists hold down communities, such as blacks and hispanics/latinos, etc. But outside of other people's racism, I think race is insignificant).




Too bad the stock markets a huge gamble so I don't know how investing it is any more responsible than not. And nobodies saying anything about spending into bankruptcy.Only parts of the market are really a gamble. They are far less of a gamble than just spending it until you're broke.
If wealth was really such a gamble, do you think there would be so much Old Money?

EDIT: Also, by investing, I in no way meant specifically the stock market. Start a company, invest in a non-profit. Make your money grow, so you can enjoy it, without spending yourself into bankruptcy.

[Die Rote Fahne]

21 people are lying.

[RGacky3]

I think you've said in some other thread that you're an "Irish" American ie white af. If I choose to identify as a nigga you as a white man have no business telling me not to. Or if you're black and you're a Bill Cosby ass nigga, fuck you.


Sure, he's saying your a hypocrite for shitting on Irish and the such for identifying as such. (By the way, no one has any buisiness tellin gyou what to identify with, they can call you dumb as I will, but race has nothing to do with it.

Bill Cosby ass nigga? As apposed to Waka flaka??


Nigga rich isn't being frivolous if you actually have money.

Yes it is, but calling it Nigga rich, IS frivolous, btw, EVERYONE thats rich enjoys their money, not just black people, the nigga rich term comes from being frivolous, making it derogetory, and making you an idiot for not seeing it.


Because he spends his money on ice and whips and shit and come from the hood whereas the other dude didn't. He's not irresponsible with his money as far as I know, he just gets it how he live.


I don't give a shit where he came from, many wealthy people alsos came from the hood, some that I know, the difference is, this guy spends his money on stupid shit and wastes it, and is irresponsible (if he's not investing), and you call it nigga rich like a tool.


Nah it's bullshit although I guess athletes are technically working class. The NOI's line supports black capitalism though, which is dumb.


Your missing the point.


I thought you were Dutch or some shit. Anyways I identify as a nigga and no one has the right to tell me I cant, especially someone in another country who has no idea what its like to be black in america.


I don't give a shit whay you identify with, by the way, I know what it is like to me mexican in america, you don't, does'nt mean you can't comment on hispanic society in the US.

But heres what I do know, you are proud of the term "nigga rich" and use as an example waka flacka ... Based on that I'm gonna call you an idiot, and your basically backing up actual racists.


I mean if we're talking a lot of money I could easily provide for my family and at the same time put ice on my wrist and nice whips in the driveway.

I really love rap don't you.


He buys into the racist neo-con "Dur hur rappers r dumb" shit.


No I don't buy into that, there are many intelligent rappers as there are many intelligent punk rockers. But Waka Flacka Flame is dumb, and being frivelous with your money is dumb, and calling that nigga rich is racist.


Too bad the stock markets a huge gamble so I don't know how investing it is any more responsible than not. And nobodies saying anything about spending into bankruptcy.

The stock market is juts one small way to invest.

And yes, when people refer to nigga rich, it was, basically by your definition, not investing and spending on ice and whips (by the way dumb white people do that as well).

By the way how would you feel say if I labeled beating your wife as a "Spic Marriage," and thought it was cute, or I labeled getting drunk as a "Spic night," would that sound a bit racist? It would'nt would it.

But your just way too much into rap, and moronic rap at that.

I'll end with this

YaM6_yiUchw

Yeah ... If there is anyone you want to emulate its this guy.

You know how he ball swish, all he know is ball, swish, every dollar in his pocket he gonna spend it all.

[Tablo]

Depending how large the sum is I would either donate some or a large portion of it and then use it here and there where I need it. Hate to say it, but if I get enough money I don't have to work some shitty job ever again then I'm just going to not work and enjoy living off the money. For the most part I wouldn't be an extravagant spender. I'm mostly just happy with a small house, a decent car, and a high end pc. Might like to travel a bit if it is some serious cash. I really do like traveling a lot. I certainly would donate a good bit if it were a shit ton of cash. Not like I need a billion dollars. Doubt I could ever even spend that much in 5 lifetimes.

[727Goon]

If gacky were black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYNQ-RJ8bs

[RGacky3]

You mean one of the best stand up comedians of all time?

I'd be him way before I'd be Waka Flacka flame, especially before taking financial advice from him, well, then again, he was broke 2 years ago now he worth a million.

But anyway, if your absolutely fine calling financially irresponsible and frivelous "nigga rich," go ahead, because yeah thats something someone like Malcolm X would be totally in favor of.

Would you be ok with calling dudes that leave their kids "nigga dads?" along with nigga rich its also a racist stereotype that white racists love, but I'm guessing you would'nt because it, along with nigga rich, are racist and degrading, the only difference is one is in a couple rap songs.

Its fine if you want to use that, but I find it a bit sad.

[ZrianKobani]

I'd be torn between the first and second option: ideally I'd say donate it all like Immortal Technique but in reality I'd put my boyfriend through school, buy a small house, and make sure my mom and siblings were taken care of before doing anything else.

[727Goon]

Immortal Technique

Like his broke ass has money to donate

[727Goon]

You mean one of the best stand up comedians of all time?

I'd be him way before I'd be Waka Flacka flame, especially before taking financial advice from him, well, then again, he was broke 2 years ago now he worth a million.

But anyway, if your absolutely fine calling financially irresponsible and frivelous "nigga rich," go ahead, because yeah thats something someone like Malcolm X would be totally in favor of.

For the last time its not about being irresponsible. It's just shinin and if you have money you can do it and still be responsible. And in a way Waka Flocka is more intelligent than Bill Cosby. Cosby had access to an education and came from a pretty stable background when he started his career. Meanwhile Flocka didnt have that kind of education and came from the hood but was still able to market himself and the way he live his life in a way that made him that money. In that sense, hes a fuck of a lot smarter than you or me.


Would you be ok with calling dudes that leave their kids "nigga dads?" along with nigga rich its also a racist stereotype that white racists love, but I'm guessing you would'nt because it, along with nigga rich, are racist and degrading, the only difference is one is in a couple rap songs.

That has nothing to do with it but keep looking dumb.

[Revolution starts with U]

Immortal Tech has enuf money to open schools and shit in the 3rd world. He seems to be doing fine.
And the only one looking dumb is your racist ass.

[hatzel]

This thread has become awfully silly (not like it was entirely devoid of silliness to start with); I have my stamp of (dis)approval ready to express my opinion:

http://www.gadgetvenue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/facebook-dislike-Stamp-300x222.jpg

[ZrianKobani]

Like his broke ass has money to donate

In June 2008, Immortal Technique partnered with Omeid International, a Non–Profit Human Rights Organization, to lend his support. He dubbed the work as "The Green Light Project". With the profits of The 3rd World album, Immortal Technique traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan to help Omeid build an orphanage without any corporate or external funding. The orphanage, having been successfully established, currently houses over 20 orphaned children from Kabul.

Check wikipedia on his charity work.

[RGacky3]

For the last time its not about being irresponsible. It's just shinin and if you have money you can do it and still be responsible.

Nigga rich is used as basically being irresponsible, you call it shinin and so on, but its seen as being frivelos and irresponsible, and your purpetuating it.

Theres a reason they call Waka Flacka Nigga rich but they don't call that of the CEO of American Express.


Meanwhile Flocka didnt have that kind of education and came from the hood but was still able to market himself and the way he live his life in a way that made him that money. In that sense, hes a fuck of a lot smarter than you or me.


He's a rapper and industry marketed him.


That has nothing to do with it but keep looking dumb.

Its the same thing, and I would'nt be calling anyone dumb after saying you'd want to be "nigga rich" like Waka Flacka rather than investing your money.


Like his broke ass has money to donate

Well he does, and thank God he's not "nigga rich."

[ZrianKobani]

I think Tech said it best

Free markets make money disingenuously
But I invest in agriculture, biochemistry
Smart nigga from the hood, pussy, what type of crime is that?
But exec's are like, "You from Harlem? Where your diamonds at?"

[RedRise]

I guess it depends a lot on where I'm at when I'm offered the money. If I was living comfortably and all my close family and friends were than I would choose the best charity to give most to and maybe keep a small amount.

[maskerade]

i'd go into space. then i'd invite kim jong il over for dinner, just to chat. then i'd buy my own island and live the rest of my life on the beach in a hammock. with lots of weed. and beer.

would also start my own charity to evade taxes, but it would be something useful, like animal rights or research for a cure to the common cold.

lastly i would buy my own saw-mill in a third world country and contribute to deforestation while making useless and overpriced furniture. in other words i'd be a dirty capitalist pig.

[sattvika]

I would buy a copious amount of shrooms.

[Kuppo Shakur]

I'd use the money to start up a company like Aperture Science.
Fukin Srsly.

[Blake's Baby]

I would buy a copious amount of shrooms.

There's fields of 'em where I live, how's about you send the money to me?

Surely there's only one sensible anwer to this (given that the poll answers are not all that sensible) which is 1, allowing for the definition that 'on what I need' might sometimes include 'some useless shit that will make me feel better', 'some stuff for my family friends and community, either through gifts, loans, investments or whatever, but at least some spreading the wealth', and 'a hefty amount to the organisation(s) that i think might make a difference whether political groups or charities or whatever'.

Surely, no-one would turn down the money? Boycotting money won't bring down capitalism, and there's no moral virtue in refusing it. Can you make better use of it than whoever is giving it to you? Under such improbable conditions, I'd say it's very likely you can. After all, anyone who randomly gives a large pile of money to a RevLefter is obviously a moron. It's your moral duty to do something worthwhile with it, I reckon.

[Chris]

I'd keep enough to be able to afford education without depending on stipends and study loans. I would probably keep a little on the side for emergencies as well. As for the rest? I hope I'd donate 67% of the rest to the CPN and the other 33% to a charity. Never been in situation where I had much money though, so I cannot be sure what I'd do. That is what I think and hope I'd do.

[Spawn of Stalin]

I'd buy a bigger house, a couple of nice cars, build a recording studio, pay off all my families debts and give the rest to Eminem

[727Goon]

Everybody's forgetting to tithe to Based God.

[Johnny Kerosene]

Leave 50% on in random amounts on various lower class door steps.
With the other 50%, I would attempt to be high for one year.

[Vendetta]

Block party.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ok, im going to assume less than ten grand US.

1: fix my car.
2: get auto insurance
3: give a few grand to the party
4: by a new computer
6: save the rest to keep auto insurance and help in tight spots.

ten grand is way too easy to blow on just staying alive for one year

[Lee Van Cleef]

Frankly, anyone who would not hold onto the money would either be a fool or already rich.

I would take it and put some aside for bills, needs, repairs, emergencies, etc, and invest the rest in the market so that it can last longer. Then I would continue about my life as usual, but with considerably less stress.

[Geiseric]

I'd wait untill weed is legalised then i'd start a collective weed farm, Kibbutz style.

[ZrianKobani]

Everybody's forgetting to tithe to Based God.

10% to the Church come Sunday.

[Dumb]

If it's hundreds of thousands of dollars, then I'd give several thousand to ISG (Scotland), and then split the remainder between me and an old chum of mine so that we could each pay for our PhDs. Whatever I have left after that, I'd give to my family.

[Bacon-Egg]

I'll pop my revleft cherry lol.
Aren't those options a bit simplistic? I don't think anyone would blame an individual for spending a quantity of that money on themselves; paying of bills and debts. I don't think that would be contradictory with leftist thinking at all.

[∞]

I've always wanted a fleshlight...

[ZrianKobani]

I've always wanted a fleshlight...
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