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Originally Posted by roachboy
i have to say that tarl's post above is appalling.
that poverty is somehow normal, somehow acceptable, is not only ethically regunant but is also not good business because it builds an element of social instability into the heart of capitalism--and capitalism, for all the ideology of freedom that floats with it, in the same huge white porcelain bowl, requires social stability to operate. even as the system itself undermines it.
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Poverty is normal in a capitalist society. You can't have rich people without poor people. No matter what you do, as long as you currently live within this type of economy, there WILL BE POOR PEOPLE.
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the idea that the redistriubtion of wealth is legal plunder is absurd. so absurd that it is difficult to know where to start to demonstrate its absurdity. maybe it makes sense in the manly fantasies informed by hack writers on the order of ayn rand, but nowhere else.
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It is essentially plunder though. The countries who have the power to bargain from a favoured position gain much more from their trade relationships than do the weaker countries. I defy you to show me how multinationals based out of the US and the US itself are gaining equally from trade agreements with, for example, any Latin American country.
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the whole communism thing is straight from the john birch society. i remain amazed that this outdated tripe has attained any currency for anyone. even if you stick with the relatively expansive assumptions about conservative credulity, it still is amazing.
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I have absolutely no idea what the point of this paragraph was, but I shall attempt to mirror it:
The whole capitalism thing is straight from PABAAH. I remain amazed that this outdated tripe has attained any currency for anyone. Even if you stick with the relatively expansive assumptions about liberal credulity, it is still amazing.