Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
>>Because its absolutely proper to go around blaming wealthy people for problems and unthinkable to consider our selves as individuals whose individual choices might be part of the problem.
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>>"Don't blame me, I'm only in the worlds 1%, not the 0,1% like the 'real' rich people."
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>The numbers are somewhat irrelevant - and it's not the matter of being rich or poor, it's of why is someone rich and someone is poor.
>Remember the line "we have legalized robbery", from IIRC Dire Straits?
immediately recognised that one (I have legalized robbery). From the somewhat less know song: "The man's too strong", on the "brothers in arms" album.
>It never stopped. This is the nth wave of robber barons. And you can't call them robbers, because they bought legislation which made them legal.
We have to pay tax. I recognise the need for that. Therefore I have a different viewpoint.
>What did Jefferson say, how frequently should the system be rebuilt from scratch?
Just as many times as you rewrite your software from scratch?
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