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Originally Posted by loquitur
Roachboy, I think your argument is a much better one than host's. I disagree with it, primarily because I think any alternatives to capitalism are likely to be much worse, especially in terms of stifling human freedom and squelching innnovation and entrepreneurialism. But you're right that inequality is built into the structure of capitalism. Whether that's a feature or a bug is a different question.
Host's position as set forth in the OP makes me think, mainly, "I wish he could get over his bitterness, it's consuming him."
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LOL.... I'll trade you your lack of concern/rationalizations for my alleged bitterness? Deal?
You post that you read a lot....have you ever heard of TNEC ? There was a heated political struggle to prevent it from getting started, ceaseless attempts to defund it, and they were successful in 1941, when TNEC was less than three years old.
Are you at all curious what is in TNEC's sealed records? 67 years seems like an excessive amount of time to conceal the abuses of the wealthiest and most powerful of the time, from the descendants of the oppressed, dontcha think?
After all, didn't the greatest generation fight a war, and take a large number of causalties, to contribute profits to the oligarchy of the time?
If I am bitter, was Smedley Butler bitter? How would you describe your own outlook, does it match the political and economic fundamentals and the history of the last 75 years, more rationally than my outlook?