But the new products were usually cheaper and easier to use, and so people or companies who were not rich or sophisticated enough for the old ones started buying the new ones, and there were so many more of the regular people than there were of the rich, sophisticated people that the companies making the new products prospered.
The trouble is that most medical research is done in rich countries, for the benefit of rich people.
According to its founder, Brandon Wade, the site connects rich people with good-looking people who want to gallivant around the world on the rich person's dime.
In part, this reflects the fact that some of the first rich people to back Labour came from the arts men like David Puttnam, a film maker, and Melvyn Bragg, a television presenter. (Both men are now peers.) But it also illustrates a keenness to cultivate opinion makers.
Not only are the rich getting richer, but also the number of rich people is growing.
And Tanya adds, the rich people don't vote for Lula, the poor people do.
Maybe I am just lucky but all of the rich people I know are generous, humble, and hard working.
Which it might well be in terms of how much cash you can squeeze out of the rich people.
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We live in a society where the rich people get things for free and the poor people have to pay for everything.
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In the Gulf rich people serve imported spirits to impress their guests.
We, the rich people of the world, buy the products of those factories staffed by the poor but getting ever less poor people of the world.
The poor rich people in Guernsey have been beset by power outages and road closures to fix downed cables due to wet and wintry weather.
There is also quite cold headed calculation as well: the more rich people there are in the world the more we can trade with them and become ever richer ourselves.
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We can be more specific: 200, 000 rich world people add the same value as 200, 000 rich world people.
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Watching a single YouTube video would be about the same as paying for dinner, and even a video of rich people eating rich people food wouldn't justify the trade.
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He believes, with shining certainty, in his own success, and, more broadly, in the American Gospel of Wealth that lies behind it: the idea that rich people got rich by being good, that the riches are a sign of their virtue, and that they should therefore be allowed to rule.
The good that these rich people have done in the process of getting rich is obscure.
To be sure, Scroggin did not create the notion of controlling beyond the grave, something rich people have done throughout the ages.
Everyone in America has been promised affordable health insurance and the only people who are going to suffer are a few rich people (the top 1%).
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At this point you might ask: Where in the world have rich people willingly paid more taxes?
The population of rich people living in Asia-Pacific, led by China with over 535, 000 millionaires, according to Capgemini, surpassed that of Europe in 2009.
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Was it guilt for the selfishness and indifference with which rich people like him treat the poor and the homeless of this city?
This plays nicely into the Democratic narrative that Republicans only care about rich people and the Republican narrative that Democrats want to raise taxes.
Selby got into the movie business last year when he formed Horsethief Pictures with filmmakers Tiller Russell and Duncan Montgomery. (Clarium is not an investor in the company.) Unlike many rich people who get into the movie business to go to premieres and meet stars, Selby got into the biz because he saw a technological hole he thought he could fill.
The people who patronize the artisanal bakery are not rich people.
But calls to stick it to the rich must be balanced with genuine knowledge about what most rich people have already paid.
All quite wonderful for the lawyers and not really of much use to anyone else: for the lawyers will be the only people who get rich out of this of course.
"In the rich countries very few people, if any, pay 3% for their own consumption, " says Biswas.
Every proposal for deficit reduction has to take into account the strategic responses of rich people to tax increases.
Local activists all over the developing world, encouraged by like-minded people in the rich world and linked by the Internet, are clamouring for less pollution.
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