arkirk
Veteran Member
You think you have a small enough amount that nothing would be taken. If you look at the world's population, though, that's not the case.
We are not trying to take care of the world's poor now by intentionally boosting the incomes of the wealthy. We are not even taking care of the poor in our country. Why do you think that it is our responsibility to take care of the world's poor if we decide to take care of the poor in this country?
I noted that Loren recoiled at the notion of redistribution of wealth. Redistribution is redistribution and it is happening now. It really is not a matter of whether or not there will be redistribution but the direction I suggest for that redistribution that bothers him. He treats my suggestion as one that would be unguided and unheeding of overriding social needs...that we would just take a big preemptive knife and start cutting the rich people's pies up. Then, he leans toward me and in a tone of big brotherliness tells me that I better watch my thoughts...someone might take a piece of my pie.
Economic news is data on redistribution of wealth and is ongoing. It is not a matter of whether wealth will be redistributed, but how it is currently being redistributed. He accepts this as simply a matter of fact that cannot be adjusted for fairness. Even in his Utopian capitalist system, it has been grossly redistributed in favor of a limited number of our population. This redistribution from the general population and the commons took a sharp right turn in the 80's toward a very unsustainable, very unfair condition. That is what we have today within our country. Further, this condition is set to continue in the Stock Market and financial markets.
In the past, we have made minor adjustments to our method of wealth distribution on several occasions when this method led to social breakdowns...(the early 30's for example). Adjustments were made based on the state of our knowledge at that time and while we continued to unduly harm our environment, there became a temporary improvement in the mechanisms of wealth distribution.
This redistribution of wealth is what the economy is all about. It is an ongoing process and most economists believe that it should be a fluid flow of wealth through a system that operates continuously. Big banks and the filthy rich put the brakes on this system when they become worried that somebody might take some of their pie away. The problem becomes aggravated when everybody regards things in this narrow, very selfish manner. Our media has promoted this frame of mind in almost all of our population and many of the poorer people among us cannot imagine an easing in their economic condition without winning some sort of lottery. These are the conditions that Loren wishes to extend. I think this are wrong thinking and wrong acting if our goal is a civil society that honors human rights.