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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