Why Not Redistribute Wealth?

That statement is a far cry from redistribute wealth.

But yes, we are a far ways from a free market economy.

There are still honest, upstanding businessmen, and I expect one to assume the role of John Galt in the near future, if that has not already happened.

If fantasy is your operating system then anything is possible because there are none of those pesky limitations posed by reality.
You must be a child, no adult postulates against fantasy.
Your style is to set up false dicotomies and then rail against them. That's not reality, but reality is esactly what you're avoiding.
You clearly don't like dealing with reality.
Enjoy you illogical masturbation

I'm gonna sit outside for a while, enjoy the cool autumn evening and the fruits of MY labor.

Keep up the circular logic. Maybe you will run into yourself and learn something

Cheers....well said! I agree, but not to the level of giving up my rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

But to be honest, our country is gone.....as we all are corporations, logged in the ledgers and sold on the market....sadly, the only way back is a bloody revolution.

Wow. Nice one. You said what I've been thinking but couldn't find the words.

Thanks

Hey, I'm just brainstorming, not trying to be rude. My apologies. Just pointing out that human beings are sometimes motivated by things other than financial gain.

Sorry, didn't realize that exercising one's imagination, maybe stretching to a visionary thought once in a while, was considered childish and "avoiding" reality. I wake up to reality every day, live my life in it, but still reserve the right to throw my thoughts outside that box once in a while.

I'll take some of yours, gladly--contact me for the addresss to send the check.

Yeah, I'm enjoying my evening too. Just finished a massive 6-month project today and am taking an evening off.

I'm glad you are happy and satisfied that this system is without flaws, and that your portfolio is doing well. Have a cigar and a shot of bourbon, and make a smug toast to all those 1s and 0s that are sitting on a hard drive somewhere out there in cyberspace. Let's hope a global financial meltdown brought on by a greedy banker elite doesn't wipe you out. Or maybe you have a triple-short ETF tucked away there somewhere.

I completely agree with you. The problem is humans though, not the idea. If we were all perfect people, that would work. However, there are people that steal, take, cheat, are selfish, that ruin that system. They ruin some of the things we have now, like welfare. People as a whole need to change for it to work, and unfortunately, I don't think that will ever happen.

Look at the way the job market is. Everyone wants to blame the president for not making jobs. How can one man create millions of jobs? There aren't many ways for him to do it, honestly. The corporations, businesses and whatever else need to stop being greedy, and sending their businesses elsewhere. We need factories here, we need to be building here, and making things here. It would create jobs. In my opinion the whole problem is with that. If we fixed that, everything would be getting better, but no, they still send their places to another country. So people can make things for 1 cent an hour. They have billions of dollars, but can't pay Americans to work there? Fuck that.

Yes, I'm not painting every person who has attained a measure of financial success and security with the same brush. I'm talking about those lizards who have gained a stranglehold on the system and used it to subjugate the masses through political and financial control. The "old wealth" families who own the world and are presumptuous enough to believe they are going "god's work" while they loot and pillage the financial system out of greed and lust for absolute power.

Funny, how the phrase "redistribution of wealth" sends the rich and wealthy into a tizzy. Except when the wealth is redistributed UP to them, then it's ok.

Oh that's GOOD...

You trust these motherfuckers?

Psssht. Fool.

Im very sorry for this example. but it works. Read how Adolf Hitler revitalized a dying Germany

He gave back to the people and zeroed in and focused on the family unit

He brought back housing, education, morality within families, and plentiful jobs in manufacturing. Science, organic food and nature conservation flourished under his regime.

Im just a researcher of his techniques, I dont support being against any race of people or faith.

According to New York Times : Reich Bureaucrats Seen in a New Light, in time the jewish people were stripped of all savings and assets, so that at one point up to 30% of the military were financed by confiscated Jewish belongings

Towards the end of the war they had nothing to eat, but many owned large bank deposits. These became worthless, because when the war was over there was nothing anymore that you could buy with Hitler’s money

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So, he stole from the wealthier class and in the end, he still failed his people.

I can't find a reference now but I understand that he stripped the wealth from nations he conquered in war.

Again, I think Hitler's techniques failed

True. He put lots of people back to work building infrastructure (autobahn system, for instance), car's, pharmaceuticals, tanks, aircraft, ships, howitzers, shells, bullets, bombs, death camps, etc. Was certainly an efficient economy with full employment (and lots of financing help from Wall Street), but, nah, that's not a good solution,

although it could be argued that the new security industry that has evolved as a result of 9/11, and the perpetual wars that have been perpetrated since then could be seen as a similar tactic. When the dotcom bubble burst at the turn of the century the economy needed a kickstart, and TPTB certainly didn't let the 9/11 crisis go to waste.

Unfortunately, those bills are now coming due.

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Excellent. Thank you.

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j/k ET. Best wishes to you on the upcoming wedding!

Right. I think there is enough money around (thanks to The Bernanke's alchemical manifestations) but it's just not moving fast enough. There is record corporate profits, but they're hoarding cash, not spending, not investing, not hiring, and spending is what fuels the economy. The shrinking middle class no longer has much discretionary income to spend, while wealth over the past 30 years has been REDISTRIBUTED UPWARD, from the bottom 99% to the top 1%. And that gulf is widening. And it's just greed, pure and simple.

I dunno. There is a self-balancing reckoning coming. The whole house of cards is so top-heavy that I just don't see it as staying up much longer, in spite of the frantic manipulations of those who hold those powers.

I've gotten a lot of bad karma for suggesting a redistribution of wealth, but if the poor and middle-class had money to spend, they would, and the economy would pull itself out of the muck. But those who "have" don't want to share with those who don't, consider it to be some sort of theft, have a belief that anyone who is poor or struggling is either stupid or lazy, and deserve to be poor, screw them, losers.

Ironic thing is that when the whole thing implodes from the greed-sucking wealth at the top, that everyone will be suddenly more equal, only instead of the poor becoming rich, the rich will become poor. too.

And it has a sort of inevitability to it, especially for anyone with paper wealth, so all you who are smug in their wealthy portfolios, might as well burn them to stay warm when TSHTF.

I've come to the conclusion that Buckminster Fuller had it right. Wealth is the number of days of forward survival, so anyone who has the means to do so would be well-advised to convert their paper assets into tangible assets that ensure their forward survival and self-sufficiency, because there aren't gonna be many big corporations to provide your water, energy and food. Shelter, self-generated energy, food production facilities, and a reliable water source, for starters.

The S is going to HTF at some point in the not-too-distant future, and we will be in for perhaps years of struggle as the Beast of an economy we have built over the past 150 years will dismantle and implode on itself, and those who have become dependent on corporations for their sustenance will probably not survive. I guess there is your economic darwinism.

And perhaps that is the answer to the whole question of economics in a limited-resource world. Individual self-sufficiency and efficiency on a mass scale. Throw out the unlimited-growth model, the mindless-consumption, planned obsolescence, throw-away culture, and just live a high-quality life based on something other than material "wealth," the pursuit of which is really a poverty of the soul.

There was a payroll tax reduction last year, but the non-elite, the regular folks did NOT spend it as anticipated. They saved when they could, they paid down debt, bought some specific classes of items (survival stuff for one).

But you castigate business for not spending, you want them to hire people for whom there is no work. Or should they stock warehouses until full, then build more?

I dare you to hire a plumber, have him come to your house, pay him a day's pay, and have no plumbimg projects for him to work on. That is the logic of business ot hiring, there is no need for labor right now.

DUH

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And perhaps that is the answer to the whole question of economics in a limited-resource world. Individual self-sufficiency and efficiency on a mass scale. Throw out the unlimited-growth model, the mindless-consumption, planned obsolescence, throw-away culture, and just live a high-quality life based on something other than material "wealth," the pursuit of which is really a poverty of the soul

The reason society has evolved to a division of labor economy is because it is more efficient. The idea of self-sufficiency is by nature inefficient

Well, that is open for debate. Technology can make the self-sufficiency model very efficient. Grow a tomato in your backyard garden and eat it a few feet from where it was produced. As opposed to growing a tomato thousands of miles away from where it was produced, spend dwindling fuel resources to ship it across the country to put in a grocery store, so it is eaten hundreds of miles away from where it was produced.

Same with energy. Put up a solar panels and windmills. Use it where it is produced. As opposed to digging or siphoning it out of the ground, refining the raw, shipping it across the world and using it thousands of miles from where it was produced. Not very efficient at all.

How efficient is dependency when the J-I-T distribution system breaks down? That is an enormous vulnerability the masses have been sucked into the past few generations. One glitch in teh system, and we have a cascading humanitarian disaster.

We have built a fragile house-of-cards and there is a strong wind coming.

So, what happens when robots take over the production formerly done by human labor?

I think we are seeing what happens, and the current model isn't going to cut it in the future. Need a new model.

"Labor is prior to and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

A Lincoln

Only Pinko-Commie Fag-Subversives believe that they have a claim on private property.

There is a system in place now that is designed to re-distribute wealth, and its been in practice nearly since the dawn of civilization, they call it "getting a job".

Hope this helps.....

Growing season is limited.

Solar is not sufficient as an energy source.


I did not claim the system to be robust, although it is that to some degree considering alternate sources for products we do not rely entirely on JIT.

I diretly responded to your claim of efficiency, not robutness.

A better example of effeciency is, built your own car. Build your own house. Build your own electronics. For food, grow and preserve enough to last until next season, husband all animals necessary for meat and dairy, and grow the grain to feed them. People did these things before labor became more specialized. Not efficient.

again you revert to a future that may or may not materialize.

Did you not just talk about the fragility of our modern world and how we need to become MORE self sufficient?

Robot or homesteads...please choose one side of the debate or the other, stop trying to have the best of both worlds.

earn it

period

Why not have both? Robots make the stuff we use, humans become self-sufficient? Robots become the labor, and humans become free to pursue whatever creative pursuits they wish.

No reason why robots and homesteads need to be mutually-exclusive.