If you work hard and buy a nice car you're an asshole, apparantly

[willswitchengage]

But she does, explicitly condone vandalism.

 

That was quite clearly not my point. Brilliant riposte.

[willswitchengage]

Why would you be surprised that such a thing would exist?

 

In the independence referendum 45% of the turnout voted yes, that's about 1.4million people.

 

This was despite almost the entire media pushing for a no vote.

 

In purely business terms, it makes sense to market to an uncluttered for 1.5 million people.

 

In social terms it makes sense to have a variety of political opinion in the media.

 

Perhaps ask yourself why 'almost the entire media' pushed for a no vote.

 

The National's circulation is less than ten times that of the Daily Record or Scottish Sun. Or the next 15 best selling newspapers in Scotland. Did you invest in them?

[Tayne]

That was quite clearly not my point. Brilliant riposte.

 

What was your point, that rich and powerful people might not be very nice?

 

That people who have expensive cars do drive like assholes?

 

I don't believe you can look at any parked car and make judgments about the owner.

 

I also don't believe that author was painting some bigger picture about the state of society, generally people who think along those lines are too smart to think that mindless vandalism will create some sort of utopia.

[Tayne]

Perhaps ask yourself why 'almost the entire media' pushed for a no vote.

 

The National's circulation is less than ten times that of the Daily Record or Scottish Sun. Or the next 15 best selling newspapers in Scotland. Did you invest in them?

 

I think you mean that its less than a 10th of the Scottish Daily Record?

 

For the record, I have no print media investments.

 

I'm not going to ask myself about the media, mainly because I don't want to misinterpret whatever point you're trying make.

[cros]

I expect full support from Catriona should I choose to express my disdain for oppressive religions by razing their edifices to the ground.

[Lacquer Peel]

Perhaps ask yourself why 'almost the entire media' pushed for a no vote.

 

The National's circulation is less than ten times that of the Daily Record or Scottish Sun. Or the next 15 best selling newspapers in Scotland. Did you invest in them?

 

Because almost the entire media is pro-establishment, pro-status quo and there's no room for anything but consensus opinions. See their negative attitudes to Jeremy Corbyn, right and left wing papers alike.

[willswitchengage]

What was your point, that rich and powerful people might not be very nice?

 

That people who have expensive cars do drive like assholes?

 

I don't believe you can look at any parked car and make judgments about the owner.

 

I also don't believe that author was painting some bigger picture about the state of society, generally people who think along those lines are too smart to think that mindless vandalism will create some sort of utopia.

 

No.

 

I think my point as quite clear:

 

 

 

Without wanting to condone vandalism, the author does raise a point about power corruption. The Economist ran a leader about this last week describing the relationship between success and altruism: http://www.economist...mp-every-leader

 

I referred out to an interesting article that I recently read that discusses some of the attitudes that the author of the Herald article referred to, albeit in a more balanced and substantiated way.

[Tayne]

No.

 

I think my point as quite clear:

 

 

I referred out to an interesting article that I recently read that discusses some of the attitudes that the author of the Herald article referred to, albeit in a more balanced and substantiated way.

 

 

I don't feel that Catriona Stewart's writing is that mature.

 

It may be that she's very clever, is playing us all and wrote the whole thing in the knowledge of the reaction that she'd get. 

 

However I suspect that it was mostly a projection of her own inadequacies on those she can easily identify as, superficially, more of a success than herself.

 

 

 

In terms of the rich not being very nice, perhaps their lack of empathy has enabled them to earn more and its not the money making the people bad merely the bad people being able to make decisions that earn them more money.