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Ok, and if I were to walk in downtown NYC, next to the the stock exchange, would these wall street traders start harassing me when I am just trying to get where I am going?

No, that doesn't happen. Do you see the difference?

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Those financial workers whined and threw fits to receive federal bailouts while everyone else's futures and livelihoods were on fire with no chance of the same white-glove treatment. The banal dichotomy you're trying to illustrate here is just a rationalization for sorting humanity by their wealth.

All I am saying is that they never accosted me on the street for a bailout. They may have "threw fits" metaphorically, but they did not do so to me in the streets, literally.

No, literally threw fits on public television in plain view of people who had lost their jobs without severance or unemployment assistance. But keep insisting that shitting your pants when a homeless person asks you for change is a normal and human reaction.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The interaction you are describing, of me being accosted by a suited wall street trader, has never happened to me. And I'd bet that it has never happened to basically every other people out there.

Now, getting assaulted by a homeless person on the other hand.... That's probably happened to at least 50% of people.

> asks you for change

No. I'm talking about assault and violence, actually.

>That's probably happened to at least 50% of people

This and every other word in your reply is in complete bad faith. Have fun posting here.

yeah, unlike wall street, i get to choose when i give money to homeless people.

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