[MD] The Empire

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

> [Chris]
>> Don't get me wrong, this system is built as a competitive system, and if
>> some win, some have to loose

[Craig]
> But you are wrong.  I have an orchard with more apples than I can eat &
> you have a ranch with more cattle than you can eat.  If I trade some 
> apples
> for some beef, it's a WIN-WIN situation.
> Craig

But that's not the way it works now is it? If you however were to add two 
other people to the equation, person X and person Y to your production 
owners A and B, X and Y would not own anything but their labour that they 
could sell or trade. Since they need to play the game set by the social 
system to secure their biological needs they go to A or B and sell their 
labour. They go to A and sell their labour, whereupon A's profit is raised 
substantionally and A grows richer. He doesn't however have to share these 
profits with X and Y - the actual workers, but because he owns the 
production means he can gain all the profits and only pay a bare minimum to 
X and Y - the workers who provide him with the wealth. That's reality.