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  Securities are stocks, bonds, and other intangible, financial assets. “Wealth” includes personal property like cars, trucks, boats, jets. “Wealth” includes real property like their home. The problem isn’t that rich people have personal property. Someone built that car. Someone built that boat. Someone built that jet. Someone built that house. All those builders were paid to build those products. Workers are hired to maintain this property. Workers are hired to pilot those boats and jets....

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  Notorious copyright troll impotently whines to Felon and Friends.

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  Exactly. Rent would need to be high enough to cover taxes, insurance, maintenance. But somewhere along the line, landlords decided that it also had to cover financing: Rent had to pay the mortgage on top of everything else. Things get pretty stupid when financing is involved. The interest I’m being charged will buy the bank two homes along with my own, and fucking everybody has, is, or will be paying a mortgage, either directly to a bank, or via a landlord. I think the solution is an owner...

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  Giving away boot straps? That sounds like socialism to me.

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  You ok there, bud? Having a bad day or something?

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  The purpose of a class is to instill a specific set of knowledge and skills. The purpose of an assignment is to provide the student with sufficient pressure to study the expected knowledge, and practice the expected skills. The assignment is the pressure to learn; it is not evidence of learning. To the student who has achieved mastery of that knowledge and skillset prior to completing the class, an assignment has no valid purpose. For such a student, the assignment is busywork, and serv...