On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why do people want to get rich? Sure, they want nice stuff, but more
> fundamentally they want to be freed from the coercive everyday insecurity
> of being poor. How do the wealthy stay rich and get even richer? They use
> the political power that their wealth accords to keep the game rigged in
> their favor.
>



That's not strong enough.

I submit to you that people want to get rich not to be freed from coercion,
but to be able to *exercise* coercive power over their fellow men and women.
-raghu.
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