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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Sunday, May 30 2004, 14:35:10 (CEST)
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The prefered American scenario for a community has five very wealthy people living on a hill...with the rest of us down in the dirt barely getting by. We`re taught that to allow us all "the chance" to become one of those zillionaires on the hill, is what prosperity and freedom and democracy is all about. The poorer we get as those zillionaires squeeze every penny out of us so they can wow us with their lifestyle...the more we watch TV shows about the rich and famous live..the more Lotto tickets we buy and the more drugs everyone takes to get through their dead end days...the more addicted do we come to this scenario...like more of what isn`t working already will work eventually.

The theory is that as those five get richer some of their wealth will truckle down to us, that we shoulodn`t get a decent wage and benefits so we can get our own "wealth" but recive it almost as charity or as a result of excess spending by a few who don`t know what to do with the money they already have...there`s no evidence that it trickles however...what saves everyone for the short haul is easily obtained debt, that and prices made easier to afford because we exploit cheap labor and steal the resources we can`t get at our price round the world by sending our jobs overseas, though it saves us nothing at the cash register in the long run, costs us jobs and makes those five even more filthy rich.

The five wealthy ones don`t pay the taxes to support their military arm...or anything else..we do that...and statistics clearly show that people are getting poorer and poorer while those five on the hill can`t spend their money..our money...fast enough.

That`s the free market version of how life ought to be.


The other model puts a cap on what theose five can earn by taxing the shit out of them while leaving them plenty to enjoy a lifestyle we`ll never get anyway...but at the same time money is availble, from the wealth we produce, to fix the streets, pay decent wages so families have a fighting chance...fund real schools and secure retirement and medical benefits so people can lead less stressful lives and won`t need the drugs those five on the hill push.

In this model the chance to be filthy rich isn`t the holy grail...but rather a secure and comfortable community is...which would also benefit those five on the hill who must now keep their children away from us lest they get infected or raped in the streets.

In one scenario the chance to get stinking rich will motivate and eventually benefit everyone...in the other benefitting everyone is what makes the community "rich".

The model we`re using hasn`t been working for a long long time...Marx said it wouldn`t and it can`t possibly...just sounds nice. The other model will have to evolve over time as people fall farther and farther behind...and stay off of drugs and out of church. Should be interesting.



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