Source: LA Times Worth a quick read.
Tom Shadyac: Life begins after you give away your Hollywood toys
“I had a woman at my production company whose job was to find people in need that we could help — people whose houses had burned down, kids in a blind children’s center,” he told me last week, sitting in his cozy trailer overlooking the gorgeous California coastline. “But I didn’t realize that even though I was giving my money away, my own life was a very poor reflection of who I thought I was. I thought I was taking care of others, but I was really only taking care of me.”
He laughs. “I couldn’t decry the gap between the rich and the poor and actually be the gap between the rich and the poor. As Mr. Gandhi says, you have to be the change you wish to see in the world.”
I'm all for this, and think more rich people should give up everything they own.
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I'm all for this, and think more rich people should give up everything they own.
Unfortunately, the voters of Washington State don't agree with me.
That bitter observation is better saved for rant sometime.
Aw, screw it, I'll rant now.
WTF WA? We had a ballot measure that would have introduced a State Income Tax here in Washington. It would have put a 3% tax on income above $200,000.00 a year. That's it. Only 5% of the state would pay the tax at all, but 65% of the state decided to vote against it. Stupid fucking Tea Baggers. Meanwhile, Seattle public schools are now announcing that they can't afford to pay their groundskeepers. Stupid. Even Bill Gates was supporting this ballot measure, because he doesn't want to see this State suffer the sort of budgetary problems California is. Alas, the fucking idiot tea-baggers and penny-pinching rural washingtonians decided to nix it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. People have no sense of reality, they live in stupid fantasy worlds. People voted against a 3% tax on the top 5% because they harbor delusional hopes that one day Elvis will come down in a UFO with an oil derrick sticking off of it, and promote them to the top 5%. Gotta protect the rich, just in case I strike it rich some day!
Anyhow, that had nothing to do with the LA Times article, but it still felt good to get it off my chest. People are stupid.
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