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11/02/2014 17:33:54
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., Nouvelle Zélande
 
 
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>>Their record on humam rights.

You're saying it's OK for you to oppress because others are bad too?

>>Why do you choose the 1%?

Because if the 1% keeps it up, they will cause a revolution. No value judgments or accusations apart from that.

>>Are we operating on the assumption that my $3000 has an equal impact as someone else's $60K, but someone else's $60K has less of an impact than yet another's $6M?

Not sure where that straw man came from. I'm saying that you can survive on $3K/year because others are exploited to keep your costs down. No value judgments or accusations apart from that.

>>Or I could just do what I do, make good decisions on where my food comes from, and occasionally point out the baseless assumption that if the 0.5% just let us have more money, we would spend it making the world a better place rather than perpetuate the status quo.

The baseless assumption is your own straw man. My concern is that the 1% cannot keep scooping value for themselves without consequence. I also consider that today's crazies are far meaner than they used to be and revolution is what they dream of. Ask Dragan what to expect even from the benign dentist next door when social order collapses, and consider what the definite crazies will be capable of. And yes I do blame the 1%: with special privilege comes special responsibility, no matter how the special privilege came about.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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