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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Depends upon what the rich guy over there is already paying.
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Matters to the rich guy, not to the poor guy. Whatever the rich guy is paying he can still afford the personal chef, the yacht, and the fuel. Whatever the rich guy is paying the poor guy still cannot afford food or health care. The rich guy is going to feel ill-used as long as he is paying more than the poor guy. The poor guy isn't going to give a hoot about what the rich guy feels as long as the poor guy doesn't have enough to survive.
I guess it might matter to us based on our impression of where we exist on the line between the poor guy and the rich guy. To paraphrase something I saw on the internet, I may or may not be two missed paychecks from being the poor guy but I am absolutely not two extra paychecks from hiring a personal chef and owning a yacht. We might think we should feel for the rich guy because some day we might have to pay that too while in reality we ought to watch out for the poor guy because, if anything, we are more likely to be in his shoes. And besides, it's the decent thing to do.