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Originally Posted by Tigerwiccan  I think that Capitalism is a horrible idea. It encourages (or the meme that it is good encourages) people that are "successful" in "life" to hoard all of their money, or maybe give little pittly bits away to "charity" to make it seem like they are not as greedy as they really are. It causes people to think that they are "better" than others just because they can afford a 5 bedroom house in an expensive area of town, an expensive car (or cars) and a $3000 TV. I'm not saying those things are not desirable to the average person, but they don't make one person better than another for having them.
I spend money for my own evertainment just like everybody else, when that money COULD be spent to better other people's lives, so I guess I'm not immune the the Capitalistic impulse, but if I was "loaded", I would settle for the things in life I needed to be comfortable, then see what I could do to help others, probably starting with my family and friends, then moving to the public.
But I think people that make a certain amount should be REQUIRED to give a certain portion of it away to help others that do not have anything. Not really Communism, but more Social Capitalism. If someone like Bill Gates was happy living a middle class lifestyle, think of all the people that could have a home, food, and cars? | I think your above statement should be justification to limit voting rights to those owning property. If the mob decided to be fat dumb and lazy then the producers would have to care for them like pets.
I'd put people that think like you in a commune if you didn't want to work for your desires if you were my pet.
Edited to add: Limit voting to people that paid "real tax", tax above and beyond SS/Medicare... bring a tax return where you show you paid actual tax and then you vote, otherwise deal with what the producers say you should get.
Last edited by Zack; 06-09-2008 at 11:56 AM.
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