Comments on: The poor reap what the luxury belief class sows https://www.isegoria.net/2024/02/the-poor-reap-what-the-luxury-belief-class-sows/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Phileas Frogg https://www.isegoria.net/2024/02/the-poor-reap-what-the-luxury-belief-class-sows/comment-page-1/#comment-3652337 Phileas Frogg Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:46:45 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51416#comment-3652337 There’s a long history of such derelicts as those he encountered and their less-than-flattering descriptions, which I’m sure Rob is aware of. Nietzsche’s Tarantula, Sowell’s Intellectuals, Rand’s Ellsworth Toohey, or more simply, “The Fatal Conceit.”

Gaikokumaniakku, interesting point. Got me thinking of an inversion of that principle:

I wonder if a publicly accepted culture of corporal punishment by Father’s and Husbands is not in a similar category: a necessary tool at lower incomes that has been wrenched from the hands of those who need them by those who can afford not to. Of course those who can afford not to avail themselves of such tools have no compunction inflicting legal sanction upon those who lack their means.

Similar to First World countries to Third World countries regarding capital punishment.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2024/02/the-poor-reap-what-the-luxury-belief-class-sows/comment-page-1/#comment-3651994 Jim Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:50:29 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51416#comment-3651994 Rob admits things about himself that I couldn’t be induced to admit under CIA waterboarding, but I respect his valiant assault of the great establishmentarian hypocrisy.

]]> By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2024/02/the-poor-reap-what-the-luxury-belief-class-sows/comment-page-1/#comment-3651986 Gaikokumaniakku Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:24:37 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51416#comment-3651986 Opiate addiction in rats is easily cured if the addicted rats are put in a “Rat Park” where they have ample food, entertainment, and mates. Similarly, when opiates were first abused recreationally by upper-class British people, those upper-class people had a relatively easy time kicking the habit when necessary because their entire society was designed to give them every possible luxury and need. Many upper-class Brits soon decided opiates were just another form of luxury consumer good to entertain one and all.

Opiate addiction is hard to cure CHEAPLY. Lower-class people who get addicted to opiates do not have the option of surrounding themselves with luxuries in order to quit. The lower-class opiate addicts paid for the upper-class opiate addicts’ stupidity.

]]> By: bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2024/02/the-poor-reap-what-the-luxury-belief-class-sows/comment-page-1/#comment-3651910 bruce Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:56:39 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51416#comment-3651910 She was poor but she was honest; victim of a rich man’s whim. First he pumped her, then he dumped her; hers the sorrow, his the sin. It’s the same the whole world over . . .

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