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"Dream Rules"
enixela 18 desperate attention whore postings
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12-15-04, 03:46 PM (EST)
 
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"Dream Rules" |
Do you ever dream of the rules you would impose on a family if you were on Wife Swap? I have been mulling over my dream rules for that wealthy NY family, most likely because I found them nauseating. They represented what I despise about the super rich: they appear to have no sense of social justice, no need to share their wealth, and assume that everyone else can only aspire to their way of life. They suscribe to the assumption that those who have money in some way *deserve* to have money and the flip side of such an assumption is that those who don't have money somehow don't deserve to make a living wage. Yet the "millionairess" did nothing to earn her income aside from being born! Not everyone aspires to a shallow, meaningless, selfish life. That said, here would be some of the rules I'd apply to that family:1. you must donate the $2000 daily spending money for the wife to a charity that helps poor people. You may not ask for a tax write-off for your donation, since taxes should be to redistribute wealth and you OWE your tax money to the community if you have that much
2. you must spend a day volunteering at a local soup kitchen
3. you must bring your children along to volunteer at the soup kitchen
4. you must clean your own house and take care of your own children and make your own food
5. you must spend a day driving someone else around
6. you must spend a day as a doorperson
7. you may not poor mouth me about having to give up your apartment if you miss a moment of work. You have too much! Give something back! "Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsiblity for the poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blurred by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance" -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton What rules would you impose on any of the families? Why? -- enixela
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dramamama 263 desperate attention whore postings
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12-17-04, 01:15 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Dream Rules" |
I think it must be really hard to come up with the rules to give to another person. I think about this every time I watch the show. Did someone help them think about how their house runs? Because I know my house just sort of runs, things happen, and you don't really think about them as rules. Maybe I don't have a lot of rules and that's why I can't think of them. Anyway, what I thought about with your question is that rich is in the eye of the beholder sometimes. I have more money than some people and a lot less than other people (like the ones you describe). But you know we own our own house, a nice car, a new computer, eat pretty well, our kid can go to a decent school, we take a vacation every year, and we can't go nuts but we have money to spend for pretty much anything we need. So think of what it would be to swap with someone who was homeless or just really poor and what would be their fantasy rules for you and how would they feel about you.
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