On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:07, raghu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe that's too strong... Or we need to define what means "getting rich".

Jean-Christophe 
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