[MD] Are we the people stupid?

[David M]

Hi Platt

Don't they maintain the current system with force?
I think we need to make changes to the system to
make it dynamic in new ways. Negative interest rates
would be really dynamic for example.

DM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden at davtv.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Are we the people stupid?


> Hi DM:
> 
> [DM]
> Just wonderring what happened to all the labour
> of my poor Irish family and why they handed nothing
> down to me, but those English landowners & factory owners
> seem to be doing quite well.
> 
> [PH]
> Yea, I wonder what happened to all the labor of my poor English family 
> and why they handed nothing down to me. For all I know they blew it at 
> the track. But whoever said life was fair?
> 
> [DM]
> Get real Platt about how the few got to own almost
> all of the planet. And if capitalism is such a good
> game why don't we re-slice out the planet and play
> another hand to see who wins again, say every year.
> 
> Here in the U.S. the government, representing all of us, owns most of 
> the West and the entire shoreline out to international waters. The part 
> of the planet that is developed was done so by the brains and work of 
> entrepreneurs willing to take great risks while the rest of us sat 
> around thinking the world owed us a living. As for changing hands, the 
> market does that every day, with some businesses failing (GM) and 
> others rising (Google). Nothing in this country is stopping you from 
> becoming another Bill Gates. Fortunately, this is still the land of 
> Dynamic opportunity, which explains why so many in the world are dying 
> to come here.
> 
> [DM]
> Of course envy would be odd coming from someone
> who presently sits in the top 5% of the hierarchy. Try
> sense of fairness instead. 
> 
> So are you suggesting for the sake of fairness that government step in 
> to redistribute wealth at the point of a gun? I hope I've misread your 
> intentions.
> 
> Best,
> Platt
> 
> 
> 
> 
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