http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/relative_depriv.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:15:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/relative_depriv.html/comment-page-1#comment-59772 Green is the new Black Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:37:13 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/03/relative-deprivation-location-and-lawdenfreude.html#comment-59772 Just because you are "ultra-rich" does not mean you have money to burn. And to create fines as a deterrant effect from the potentially destructive behavior of participating in the real estate market is like fining someone for being beautiful. The inequality of security/insecurity among the 68%/32% split you mentioned above isn't the only inequality out there. There are perceived inequalities of have, must have, and have-not within the 68% so why burden us even further??? Swells may be envied or loathed by non-swells for their perceived advantages in life (social, educational, or in terms of inherited wealth and/or looks) but that is not to say this is one of the remaining vestiges of the class system. Just because you are “ultra-rich” does not mean you have money to burn. And to create fines as a deterrant effect from the potentially destructive behavior of participating in the real estate market is like fining someone for being beautiful. The inequality of security/insecurity among the 68%/32% split you mentioned above isn’t the only inequality out there. There are perceived inequalities of have, must have, and have-not within the 68% so why burden us even further??? Swells may be envied or loathed by non-swells for their perceived advantages in life (social, educational, or in terms of inherited wealth and/or looks) but that is not to say this is one of the remaining vestiges of the class system.

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