ECONOMY

Slumdogs vs. Millionaires

What do Wall Street execs have in common with the world's poorest people? Plenty.

By Barrett Sheridan | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 20, 2009

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  • Posted By: lawyerinperu @ 03/23/2009 11:34:43 PM

    Dear Sir.
    My compatriot Hernando de Soto is right much like my countrywoman Mrs Carmen Rhor that comments the note; nevertheless I would add that all this is the old history of the powerful ones that privatizes the gains but they socialize the losses. In the measurement that advance in the democratization of the society where all are really equal before the Law and where each individual can obtain its place under the sun, even though with economic differences; it will be possible to be developing one more a happier society.
    Alonso Sarmiento
    http://alonsosarmiento.googlepages.com

  • Posted By: casada @ 03/06/2009 12:50:23 PM

    I am Peruvian and have just seen the movie "Slumdog Millionarie" and due to the parallelism of the topic and the Oscar winner, I have to add that formal property is not going to be the solutions to rich and poor people. In my humble opinion, it is respect for who you really are, education for being able to understand and above all opportunities.

    Every day we see how institutions are corrupted just in front of "our noses" as we say in Spanish, but in both hemispheres of the world, it is the same: arrogance, indifference and unfortunately oblivousness on behalf of people like you and me.

    Carmen Rhor, Lima-Perú

  • Posted By: miken277 @ 02/21/2009 10:29:36 PM

    This article glosses over the important difference between rich investment bankers and people living in poverty: those who live in poverty are being ground down into little more than animals by a chronic lack of food, clothing, shelter and education, which should be their basic rights. Investment bankers have too much of all of that, and want more. That's a basic imbalance that has to be rectified.

  • Posted By: pu1204 @ 02/21/2009 11:31:35 AM

    Thank you for a great article, never came to my mind... i dfntly liked the deeds-global arguments and it is well said !
    GREAT

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 02/21/2009 10:13:54 AM

    Good article about how the American Indian, the one who lived here when Europeans came, should have recorded the deed to the continental United States. Then, instead of being either killed or herded into a compound, he could have sold tranches of ranches to the settlers and prospered. I knew that the Indian would win in the long run and smile as his persecutors failed in the same way centuries later. There is a justice in the sky.

  • Posted By: othoschild @ 02/21/2009 4:45:57 AM

    Rick Santelli is the Paul Revere of today! The Socialists are coming! To arms, to arms! The Socialists are coming! One if by Bailout, Two if by Stimulus! Patriots, on to the Chicago Tea Party! The real revolution has begun! Obama..we want our money back..you can keep The Change.

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 02/20/2009 11:09:52 PM

    WELL YES THEY ARE BOTH MISERABLE AND LACK MONEY AND MORALITY IN THAT ORDER-LOLZ
    AND THE ARTICLE NEEDS A PERSPECTIVE TOO
    NOT JUST A PATENT

  • Posted By: benedicite @ 02/20/2009 6:20:17 PM

    The premise of this article is patently ludicrous. It's like comparing apples and, well, Apple.

  • Posted By: Osama Bin Login @ 02/20/2009 3:21:19 PM

    Well, so much for capitalism.

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