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   Joe Egginton to stork@storkyak.com   
   Re: Capitalism is GREAT   
   10 Jun 06 11:02:56   
   
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   From: joe.egginton@talk21.com   
      
   stork@storkyak.com wrote:   
   > Stork replied to:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Humans are created selfish. Even breathing and drinking is selfish.   
   >>It's called the hierarchy of needs. The point is to limit our natural   
   >>desires (as much as possible) and to be much less selfish.   
   >   
   >   
   > No, the point is to channel our competitive instincts to constructive   
   > ends.  So, therefor, we should teach people that to make things and   
   > design new things and invent things is how won wins.  That's exactly   
   > what capitalism does, and communism doesn't.   
   >   
      
   Capitalism also causes great inequalities, such as only about 500 people   
   in the world owning over half the world's wealth.  Yet nearly a BILLION   
   people struggle to find water and basic food.   
      
   Joe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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