I will answer this for the fun of it, partially because I know I come from a very different ideological background than yours. These questions are economic and on the political compass, I got an 8.25 and you, Averick, got a -5.75 which means that there is a 14 point difference in our economic beliefs.
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Have you ever thought about how you living a posh life can affect everyone who doesn't benefit from the same luxuries or political entitlements that you had so fortunately been endowed with?
Sure I have, it is called economics. If I have wealth then if I purchase then a good has to be produced, and this often means that somebody has to produce the good, which means that a job of some form is born or maintained. Beyond that, my individual wealth is doing little, unless I am investing it somewhere. As for the political entitlements, well, that depends on how we define political entitlements and all sorts of issues that between different political views almost come down to definition(you might insert war somewhere or wage slavery and I would argue that the idea is bad conception of what is going on).
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And with the power that you possess, would you not use it to help those less fortunate than you?
I would use some of it. The issue is that most of us don't really know to use it well. In fact, I think it likely that you don't use your power well either.
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Have you ever really pondered how many human lives it takes to keep the average American happy in a world like today?
Lives it takes? I suppose you mean hours of work and perhaps some health cost? I would think a lot really given the increasing amount of outsourcing and other importing as well, due to the large amount of wealth in the US compared to the rest of the world. I mean, high GDP per capita here and low wages over there means that in order for us to use our per capita, we must be giving them a lot of hours. I guess, if I interpreted it more literally like McJeff then I would run into greater problems, as killing is in political demand more than economic demand.
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