The Statesman 8th Day page 17,Feb 25, 2007
2007-02-26 04:48:19 · 6 answers · asked by sdev006 2 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Pretty easy. As long as they have us convinced that "money" has "value", then we will always be the fools. But if the people rise up and stop using "money" then these wealthy will not be wealthy at all, since they are only wealthy becase the rest of us let them be wealthy.
2007-02-26 04:56:26 · answer #1 · answered by trer 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
OK, so what is your point? Do you think that having wealth is an evil thing? Do you believe that anyone that is wealthy should also have a guilt complex about the economic status of someone elese they don't know, will never know and will never meet?
What is your point? Do you think that the acquision of wealth can only be accomplished through deceit and trickery?
And just for the record, how would you describe someone that you consider "wealthy"? Most of the "wealth" in this country is owned by people just like you and I. The person that owns a flourist shop that you buy roses from is probably "wealthy". How about the owner of a dry cleaners? The one that I patronize is American Owned by a husband and wife. They are wealthy, but also work about 70 hours a week in order to drive a 5 year old vehicle and live in a house that they built themselves. Or do you consider the person that comes out to fix your plumbing to be wealthy? They probably are if they are the owner of their own business.
What exactly is your point? Do you consider that any wealth created by anyone is actually owned BY RIGHT OF EXISTANCE by everyone else that hasn't created wealth for themselves? Can you explain the morality of that for me? If you think that someone deserves our concern and charity, then I am on your side. If you think that someone that doesn't create wealth has a right to the wealth created by another then your beleifs are immoral beyond words.
I think I have made my point, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the real point of your "oblique" question really is?
Are you a free person enjoying the benefits of a free market here in America? If so, YOUR income and wealth would probably be equal to some obscene number of the poorest in the world. Do you wish to take your hard earned income and wealth and give it to someone that didn't earn it? Then do so, but DON'T try to run some sort of liberal (socialistic/communistic) guilt trip on the rest of us.
Though it probably won't ever happen, I hope that someday I can be at the very pinacle of your list of 25 richest Americans and I will be ABSOLUTELY proud of the fact that my net worth is greater than 5 billion of the worlds poor.
I am not guilty of making ANYONE poor. And I won't accept YOUR attempt to impute guilt by the fact of my wealth.
Socialist don't want to GIVE AWAY their own wealth. It is always someone elese wealth that they feel they have a right to be fast and free with.
2007-02-26 13:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by cappi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poverty is bad. But since when has wealth become bad also?
Statements that all riches are acquired by cheating and stealing is ignorant.
Consider America's richest man Bill Gates. He made his fortune by creating and providing a product that has helped companies and individuals save trillions of dollars and lost time. And now he is in a position where he is attempting to help alleviate poverty.
Is he an evil incarnate that so many anti-capitalists love to point fingers at?
2007-02-26 13:06:21 · answer #3 · answered by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those two billion poor sit in mud huts waiting for someone to dig them a well, build them a road, drop off the free food from the latest free agency's stock. This is sad but true. During the 60's USA sent thousands of American kids to Africa and they built roads, plowed, irrigated and planted thousands of acres of crops, dug wells to support these activities. And then when these American kids left, those peoples did not bother to harvest those crops, continued to urinate and poop into those wells until they were gone, and generally sat in the huts and waited for the next agency to bring free stuff. Americans most all work, We dug the wells, built the roads and factories, plowed, worked and watered the field and harvested crops with our bare hands when necessary. The secret to the worlds haves and have nots is Work.
2007-02-26 13:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
that just shows hows unequal the world economic order is
2007-02-26 12:58:22 · answer #5 · answered by sushobhan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because Americans only care about three things:
Image (How they look.)
Wealth (No matter how they 'earned' it.) &
Their feelings (Ooh, don't hurt an American's feelings. You'll get sued.)
2007-02-26 13:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by r~@~w 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋