Capitalism> Big banks , auto manufacturers and wall street tycoons make billions of dollars with CEO perks in the millions. Socialism> Government takes your money and hands it over to failing big banks, auto manufacturers and wall street tycoons. Povertyism> You don't have any money because you don't have any money.
On Jan 22, 2:24 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I worked for quite a while in Scandinavia. Even there (as "socialist" > as it gets) no one has any truck with freeloading bums. In the old > Soviet Empire (which was supposed to be lots of little soviets) there > was little opportunity to do sod all and a lot of forced labour. > Great hardship followed the democratisation, and the poor generally > still feel they are worse off. All the Soviet Block had the "Zil > Chill" factor - voices going to a whisper as one was seen - the > Scandinavians just cold weather. We need to re-examine what Sino- > Soviet communism was. It was certainly state capitalist and to a > considerable extent driven by madmen. How might we evaluate it > against Pakistani tribalism? Are the Russians laughing now we are > stuck with their war in Afghanistan? Crucially, we need to see what > has been done to ourselves through obvious and less obvious > rhetorics. There are, amazingly, still some "golden Stalinist age" > idiots about, but there are far more who soaked up the idiot messages > of "capitalism" as dumbly as any docile body in the East. > > On 22 Jan, 05:58, Kierkecraig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why am I talking about food now? I posted your paragraph (to chris) > > > with starts out with >>I think the flaw in your reasoning is that you > > > assume if something exists everyone is entitled to it. << KC really > > > think about what you are saying. Do you really think that if > > > something exists, naturally on this planet, that people are Not > > > entitled to it? > > > That's the point. In the context of my response to Chris, it was > > clear that my point was, everyone is not entitled to something just > > because it is. And what I was referring to was modern marvels in > > medicine. I didn't follow that up with an argument that no one is > > entitled to anything. I never made such a broad sweeping argument. > > > > The existence of heart transplants is not different from the existence > > > of plasma TV's, which neither should fall under the category of > > > entitlement. > > > Good, then we are in agreement. > > > > Go back a million years KC, food existed, why? So that > > > people could gather it all up and "Capitalize" in it's "Existence"? I > > > don't think so. > > > The amount of food that existed back then wouldn't have been > > sufficient to sustain the population we have now. High capacity > > production of food is not essential for our survival. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
