"YouWho?" wrote: > Who cares about being wealthy? I chose not to be a homeless beggar and went to work
> What if everything was free? I thought we were talking about real life? >We have the technology and resources to > be able to give everyone anything they want right now, > but there is no will to do so. are you willing to work everyday for free? most people aren't and that's why just about everything isn't free >When you have four or five hundred people having more > wealth than fifty or sixty percent of the population it's insanity. not if those people live in a free country, where the economy is a free capitalist economy and everyone has the opportunity to work as much or as little as they choose > Future generations will look back on these times and economic > models as barbaric. Basically whether it's capitalism or socialism >or communism, they're all really a type of slavery. it's slavery when you are denied all the fruits of your labor, when a portion of your fruit is forcefully taken away, usually in the name of "fairness", to give to someone else who hasn't worked as much or as hard as you have, I call it stealing > The have-nots have to sell their labor and become > indebted to those who have more. usually the people who work more have more and the people who work less have less unless it's a socialist/communist society where the workers are robbed every day by the non-workers, this is the best way to have least amount of people working, the least amount of productivity, and the poorest country possible > It really is madness when an elite few have so much, > and so many have so little. There is no real reason it > should be like this other than ignorance. correct, the lazy don't want to accept that they have to be productive in order to have things > Rich and poor alike think that having more money and more > power makes you more happy. who really enjoys being broke and homeless? > If everything was freely available, people's motivations > would be completely different. unfortunately cars, homes, clothes, appliances, don't grow on trees > Sure some people would be lazy, but who cares? > The people who want to work would work and those who > don't would do something else that they enjoyed. that's the way it's supposed to be > But ignorance is the biggest factor. Why does anyone want to be > wealthy? What is the motive now? To have more things, basically. > Just more attachment to the objects and the appearances in the world > illusion. most people don't want to be hungry, dirty, homeless it's quite uncomfortable
