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"M.A. Johnson" wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
snip> Wealth is NOT energy.
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> Regard$,
> --MJ
It's not an analogy at all. Wealth is the storage of energy. It is
stored in whatever form the wealth takes. That depends on the culture.
Everyone shares a common belief as to what is valuable and therefore
worth trading time and work for.
The value in wealth is precisely because it gets an expenditure of
physical energy from others. In the forms of work and compliance.
That is why the rich have power. Power is focussed or accumulated
energy. The more wealth you have, the more power you have.
This is amplified ( leveraged ) in the Capitalist system. The power of
wealth is utilized to get more wealth. This is the fatal flaw of the
system. It GUARANTEES concentration of wealth to the wealthy. When
most
of the wealth in the system is owned or controlled by a small group,
then that leaves less or little wealth in the system for everyone
else to either fight over or share. This causes societal strain. It
first shows up as crime.
Any long term successful system MUST PREVENT THE ACCUMULATION OF
LARGE STORES OF WEALTH TO PREVENT THE CYCLE OF SOCIAL DISINTEGRATION.
The period of social disintegration is not pleasant. Ask your
relatives
who lived through the depression, or ask the Russians and Indonesians,
or even ask the modern Japanese. It is a period of devolution. It took
WWII to kick start the economies that were interdependent with the
US's
and Europe's. War is the second most serious flaw of capitalism. The
system overproduces and saturates available markets. It then requires
new markets. (Like China.) War is also an excellent tool for reducing
large quantities of stuff. Cities contain large quantities of stuff.
Bombs destroy cities which contain lots of stuff.
Brown & Root is one of the worlds largest construction firms. It has
a five year contract to rebuild northern Albania. If NATO is
successful
in destroying Yugoslavia even more than it already has since 1990,
then
Brown & Root will have a contract that includes Greater Albania which
includes either half or all of Kosovo.
This is ( as usual,) a capitalist war with a mercenary socialist
political
elite. War is good for profits. Profits are the lifeblood of the
corporations.
A certain percentage of money from the corporations' wealth is
channeled
through the political system associated with the capitalist economy,
and gets
the politicians to channel tax moneys back to the corporations through
direct purchases or government contracts for services. The return on a
corporation's political investment is astronomical in the case of
weapons
companies, and slightly more modest in other areas. War materiel
doesn't
get used up like washing machines and cars do. They only get used up
in large
quantities during a war. A good time to have a war, is when there is a
surplus in the economy, and your enemy is much smaller than you. That
way
the politicians can direct " surplus " moneys from Social Security to
the
military industrial oligopoly without fear of backlash or rebellion .
War is necessary for Capitalism's Capitalists to roll over stock. It
is only
incidental that so many people die. It is only collateral damage.
Joshua2
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