So anyone can get rich isnt just untrue, its insultingly untrue. - TopicsExpress



          

So anyone can get rich isnt just untrue, its insultingly untrue. You cant have a society where everyone is an investment banker. And you cant have a society where you pay six figures to every good policeman, nurse, firefighter, schoolteacher, carpenter, electrician and all of the other ten thousand professions that civilization needs to survive (and that rich people need in order to stay rich). Its like setting a jar of moonshine on the floor of a boxcar full of 10 hobos and saying, Now fight for it! Sure, in the bloody aftermath you can say to each of the losers, Hey, you could have had it if youd fought harder! and thats true on an individual level. But not collectively -- you knew goddamned well that nine hobos werent getting any hooch that night. So why are you acting like its their fault that only one of them is drunk? Youre intentionally conflating anyone can have the moonshine with everyone can have it. And you are doing it because youre hoping that we will all be too busy fighting each other to ask why there was only one jar.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:42:39 +0000

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