On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I never dreamed of wealthy people giving up their wealth. Not to general > welfare, not to any other worthy goal. > Andrew Carnegie gave away most of his money, and Bill Gates has already given away more money than anyone in human history, most of to the third world. Bill Gates has saved many orders of magnitude more people than Mother Teresa ever did. And Sam Walton did more good for humanity than Mother Teresa and Al Gore put together. > A NEW SYSTEM has to be established, definitely on NEW TERMS, the question is: W H O can make it and W H O can estblish it? More to the point who is going to physically enforce it? Who is going to run the goon squad? > > Not anyone from our rotten slave-driving capital/politico establishment. > In the USA during the 19th century there was a mass migration of the most oppressed, slaves, from the slave states to the free states, but during the 20th century the mass migration was from the workers paradise communist states to the "slave" capitalistic states. Don't you find that odd, do you think that maybe just maybe there might be something wrong with your world view? And if things are so rotten why is everybody richer healthier and better educated now than any other era in world history? And capitalism may be inferior to a system where all the leaders are brilliant saints, but it's a little hard to find enough people like that to rule the world. > > What if 'people' cannot be pesuaded to 'vote' against their interest? if > those millions turn out to be worthless? if - horribile dictu - VOTERS > start to T H I N K For starters: when there will be a "NON" vote? > (better: NO WAY vote). Elections are dumb, the free market works much better. > Hence my search for someone smarter than me. > Nobody is smart enough to have a deep understanding of the world's economy because being the product of of 7 billion minds it's the most complex thing know, and that's what makes capitalism so good, it will never find the perfect solution to a economic problem but it will always find a good one. John K Clark >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
