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i do not see how this is a political topic, really.
it seems more considerations about advice gathering based on class stereotypes---more a finance or lifestyle thread.
i think the thread should be moved out of politics.
it is not political because its logic is social darwinist: the economy is like an ecosystem and money like food.....better adapted organisms will be more suited to gather more food than less adapted organisms. therefore the wealthy are more fit than the unwealthy.
such the hierarchies that result from activity within this nice economy-nature are like those in actual nature.
so inequalities in the distribution of wealth are not political matters---they are indices of the hierarchies that folk like ustwo presumably like to think exist in nature.
problems with this kind of view are legion--but in terms of the thread's placement under the rubric of politics, the main problem is that the whole logic of ustwo's opening post runs counter to the idea that there is anything political in the matter of wealth distribution at all.
if conservatives like ustwo really do see the economy as an ecosystem, as a kind of nature rather than as a space for particular types of social activity, then they should assume the consequences of this position relegate their arguments about to lifestyle or finance or nature forums.
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