cyrnel

A festering sore is sometimes better than a driven knife. Sometimes the knife heals the sore.

When interest conflict there may not be a right answer. Certainly someone is always unhappy. However, I do believe there's always a more encompassing, long-term answer than "make me wealthy." The two may be compatible, or not. Who I trust depends on the question.

There's a danger here in confusing interests among me, community, country, world. I agree the odds are better for a wealthy person to have a grasp of economics, but if you mean that person automatically deserves our trust in making decisions, that's a matter of qualifications vs. qualities.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195