BRITISH ROYALS?
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- zenmasterfoo0
I don't believe special status needs to be given because of some historical birthright at all. What I'm trying to say is if you break it down, don't we give special status to a fortunate few all the time? It may not be by birthright but it could be by virtue of how well they do on a sitcom or talk show. In politics, in business. We create these future royals all the time.
Take politics out of what I'm saying. Isn't it just about being fair? Life really isn't, that's why it's an interesting topic. And human motivations are so very conflicting. Taking one person out of power while placing another in the same spot - all the while overlooking the real reason for that spot was because we need them there.
Why? Hell, I don't know. I'm just bored at work, and this is far more interesting.
- utopian0
This is treasonous!
- abettertomorrow0
Sure, we elevate people occasionally because they are interesting, funny or good looking....the Queen is none of those:) It's taxpayer subsidy based on nothing more than bloodlines.
- But what would take her place? Oprah. That's what. We'll fill the void with another.zenmasterfoo
- At least Oprah...uh... encourages reading or whatever she doesabettertomorrow
- haha, yeah whatever she does. oprah wheres my free carduhsign
- I really don't care either way, but the Queen IS interesting if you look into it.Jaline
- zenmasterfoo0
All I'm saying is, it's not so simple as they have no right to claim what they do merely because of a birthright that's been passed down. They're no different than corporate barrons who maintain huge monopolies and pass that down to sons and daughters. You have to see a larger picture. To take away from one demands you do the same to all others. The end result is a vacuum that will be filled by others. There is no equality.
Striving for it is fine. I'm not touching on that. I'm not suggesting leaving it alone either. I'm talking about the human nature aspect of this. Are they royals because they wer initially born perfect and given the posts by God? No. We did. They took it. They maintained it. We allowed it to perpetuate. Without us, who?
I love coffee for conversations like this. I'm so caffeinated right now. Hell if I were in a city I'd invite you all over for some good wine and a long argument.
- abettertomorrow0
A compromise could be giving them a palace or two but cutting off the allowance. Let them keep their royal status but don't make regular people pay for it.
More extreme solution could be throwing the Queen out onto the street.
- Kind of like the emperor in "The Last Emperor" becoming a gardenerabettertomorrow
- That was romanticized for theaters. Not reality.zenmasterfoo
- zenmasterfoo0
I understand your desire to run the royals off the public dole. I don't think I'm offering a solution for you. I'm not suggesting keeping them there. I just think you can focus.
I think your time is better spent working at building up those who cannot, by means of their own histories, get beyond their lot in life. Build towards an effective and meaningful positive for you. Forget them (not really forget, but you understand). Like I said, the world has a funny way of correcting itself.
- duhsign0
wait, so the people are paying to keep them there? ok, riiiiiiight. Thats pretty sweet. Anyone for a spot of tea?
- GeorgesII0
Imagine if you were billionaires 300 years ago,
what will it make you today?how rich are they and why are they still pretending not to be,
just like the vatican pretending to go broke when they've been in business for 2000 years
- abettertomorrow0
"Queen Elizabeth and the royal family cost British taxpayers an average of 66 pence ($1.32) per person last year"
- well thats not too bad. price of a biscuit?duhsign
- That adds up to about $80 million/year to keep the royals...abettertomorrow
- the US spent 8x that in a week in Libya.zenmasterfoo
- ah, that makes it ok then...set
- zenmasterfoo0
Any government around for over a hundred years falls into this category then Georges. Whether a democracy or monarchy or other, it matters not. The masses are ruled by those who have a better understanding of ruling than they. That's simplified to an extreme of course but why do we elect our officials? Why do any of these powers remain where they are?
How much they are worth doesn't matter does it? You'll never see a penny of that. You'd get a check from the Queen as quickly as you'd get one from Gates, Qaḏḏāfī, Oprah, Obama, the Vatican or any other power. It isn't going to happen. How they present themselves to us isn't really gong to change how much you hate them is it?
- randommail0
I wish I was a royal.
- Dodecahedron0
when USA and the rest of the world went capitalism European royalty were the only ones with any serious investment capital, they were in a sense the first super capitalists and have become even more powerful since while taking a back seat to the New World Empire
- Jaline0
I'm quite sure other countries are doing a good job of spending the same amount of money the Brits are spending on the royal family...in an equally useless fashion. Or useful...whatever you believe in.
- CALLES0
so anyones have the topless poics?
- sine0
that's very disappointing...