On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:27 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> ravi wrote:
>> but just humorous: its a dig at Ehrenreich since I can't stand
>> Ehrenreich any more than Doug can Bono, but I do believe both of them
>> (Ehrenreich and Bono, and for that matter A. Roy) are on the right
>> side of the divide (and have all done more for humanity than I have,
>> thus far).
>>
>>
>> --ravi
>
>
> Are you saying that if you were a multi-millionaire pop star who
> avoided
> paying income taxes his entire life and had legions of people who hung
> on his every word and action you feel you would not have accomplished
> appreciably more than Bono has in the same circumstances with
> regards to
> furthering humanitarian causes? Or are you saying that if Bono were an
> Indian computer programmer(?) he would have had a greater impact in
> the
> humanitarian field than you have?
> That seems a strange position to take but maybe I misunderstand.
And I don't really get why Ehrenreich deserves this sort of contempt, but then I admire her as one of the best journalists in the USA. How is investigating the life of the working poor, fully aware that one is merely a tourist in their world, at all like being a tax evading egomaniac?
Doug