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(05-14-2014 12:41 AM)Jaydublin Wrote:
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...The reason we disagree on so much when it comes to economics and politics is that you believe powerful people in general have good intentions and I believe that power/money corrupts them.[/quote]
I believe too the rich are corrupt, but they, I guess more than anybody else
want things to remain much the same as they are. because they get the pick of everything.
When I was young in the 60s, the big panic subject was the Bomb-- would USA and Russia launch their nukes?
I thought about it, and decided, fuck no, if I was a rich guy with a vacation house in Nantucket, I'd want things to stay just as they were.
And things essentially stayed the same for the upper class, but even more: the same people are in the same places, it's just they have computers now.
And I think the same non-events are going to happen now, not because people are nice, but because the people that have it nice don't want anything to really change. If you're educated so you can get into the middle class, you should be all right. I think it's true the working class is getting stomped on, there's no money to made from them.
But is there anyone here with a real marketable skill that can't get work in the USA at at least $20 per hour?