Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: That makes a lot of sense, actually

[quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="Senor Barborito"] I mean, the only reason the American economy works so well is because the few at the top <a href="http://www.lcurve.org/">rape</a> the <a href="http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/incineq/p60204/fig1.html">shit</a> out of the <a href=http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2172.html">rest</a> of <a href="http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/nytmag.html">us</a> . . . <a href="http://www.harriersvolleyball.co.uk/photos/drunk.jpg">dumbass</a>. --SB[/quote] I wish I could say that your embrace of such a profoundly flawed view of the world, centered on zero-sum economics and a neo-marxist view of history, comes as a surprise. Unfortunately, it takes the very intelligent to be so stupid; Paul Krugman is a wonderful example of that. Inequality and disparity, economically, are the logical consequences of the natural differences between humans in inherent ability, environment, random chance, etc. just like they are everywhere else. While there is certainly a percentage of successful Americans whose profits come illegitimately at the expense of others, the vast majority of people are no worse off because someone is incredibly wealthy. Obviously, a corporation's rivals are fighting for a set amount of market share at any given moment; but in the long run the only ones harmed by competition are the utterly incompetent. If anything, a man like, say, Bill Gates does more for the American people simply by running his business intelligently and creating wealth than any number of wealth-destroying income redistribution measures, setting aside considerations like philanthropy and the effect his products have in advancing other people's business interests. As with most debates, the left's histrionics in this issue are based around a false premise: that inequality is evil independent of other factors, and that egalitarianism is automatically virtuous. Unfortunately, egalitarianism is only useful and moral when we are talking about whom laws should apply to (ie everyone equally, as much as is possible). Otherwise it may well be one of the most insidious and corrupting of the utopians' legacies to philosophy, <a href="http://www.bobfromaccounting.com/2_11_02/richardsimmons.jpg">froot loop</a>.[/quote]