XPost: alt.anarchism, alt.politics.socialism, alt.society.anarchy   
   XPost: soc.rights.human   
   From: nihil@none.com   
      
   On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:13:33 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:10:12 +0200, nihil@none.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>The idea has some merit. If you are sick you go to the physician. If   
   >>your car is broken you go to the mechanic. If you want to increase the   
   >>wealth of a population then transfer wealth to those with a proven   
   >>record of wealth creation.   
   >   
   >It's not about increasing the wealth of the population. It's about   
   >distributing wealth. The top few percent already own over 90% of the   
   >county's wealth and I can't see how giving them more is helpful to anyone   
   >but themselves.   
      
   I know that.   
      
   The point is that your pious leaders and many well-intentioned   
   followers rationalize the transfer of wealth they have engineered over   
   the years and across resounding failures to the super wealthy by   
   recourse to the central tenet, and outspoken dissidents like Chomsky   
   should re-direct their argument to attack that central tenet,   
   especially now with so much evidence proving its falsity, i.e. the   
   super wealthy are actually incompetent in creating wealth that spills   
   over to the rest of the population. They have actually _lost_ most of   
   that wealth in stupidly risky investments concealed in charlatan   
   finantial technicisms.   
      
   A digression: the bail out process reminds me of the motto of marxist   
   revolutionaries when faced with the obvious failures of the systems   
   they set up: 'To solve the problems of the revolution, more   
   revolution!'   
      
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