un-becoming an audiophile

@grislybutter Once again I have to ask, "How hard is it for you to wake up every morning?" Your self flagellation is laughable. There are several problems with your thinking process, the first being is it is none of your business what other people do with THEIR money. The problem with you and your ilk is this belief that there is a limited amount of wealth and someone having a portion of it excludes others from having it. Have you ever considered the jobs created by this hobby? From the designers and mfgs right down to the people who make the transistors, capacitors, paper cones and whatever else goes into a system are all employed and able to participate in upward mobility on their own terms. If someone's plight in Bangledesh is poor how is this your fault or mine? Most of the world's poor are poor because of bad policies adopted by their governments or this belief in a class system which keeps people in a box. Or because of ideological beliefs such as thinking there are masterminds who know what's best for us instead of ourselves. My suggestion? Sell all of your worldly belongings, go on a hunger strike and protest your self perceived injustices until you no longer exist. Leave the rest of us alone.

My audiophile experience is this- I've always enjoyed music and after I stopped blaming others for my lot in life I started changing my lot. Then I was in a position where I was able to invest in my enjoyment as I SAW FIT. 

@grislybutter I'm sorry that has happened, it certainly isn't something I advocate as I believe in free speech. Here is the problem with your supposition about why your post were deleted. I am not a rich man by most standards; then again, I believe rich is a fluid term. I am rich to some but the poor in our country are considered rich by the rest of the world's reckoning. Twenty-five years ago I was a homeless man on the streets of New Orleans. There is an economic ladder, a legal one, available for any who care to climb it, at least in our good ol' USA. Like any ladder it has two directions based on the choices you make. You know how I display my compassion for people? I provide them jobs where they can earn a paycheck and have dignity and ambition. I probably make less than 70% of the members of this forum. I admire them. Guess what? People who have money are the most charitable! I have no children to depend on me, that helps. My wife and I care for my mother who has Alzheimer's. We feel as if we know best how to spend our money on what we need and what we want. Always amazed at people who feel the need to decide for other's how their money should be spent.

Point is, they didn't remove it because I'm rich!

I've never attacked your character. On the other hand, I've been called an uncaring rich guy because I spend money on something I like when it's mine to do with.  You elect people who vote for the tax policies you abhor. The larger the government the larger the bureaucracy hence the larger the cost to all of the taxpayers and more people will be able to enjoy less and less. State government laws that were passed in California are pricing people right out of affordable housing for all economic brackets except for the wealthy, Rich people aren't the problem; an overgrown and unwieldy government is. If waste, fraud and bloat were eliminated people could live comfortably without others bemoaning our choices.