10-14-2012, 06:03 PM
Stevie, as history has shown, the only way to address the disparity of wealth is for the poor to rise up and physically remove the wealth from the rich.
There has never been another way.
When the rich own everything, the means of production (/extortion), the police force, education and healthcare, they have no stimulus to give it back to the people. Why would they? If they can keep us scared and complicit and make laws that allow them to feed us sawdust and shit (really, look at what you eat), why would they do anything that does anyone any good apart from themselves?
They can afford not to be altruistic. They are above the foul stinking masses: they don't need to be concerned with their neighbor's child having enough to eat that he doesn't try to steal bread from your table.
There has never been another way.
When the rich own everything, the means of production (/extortion), the police force, education and healthcare, they have no stimulus to give it back to the people. Why would they? If they can keep us scared and complicit and make laws that allow them to feed us sawdust and shit (really, look at what you eat), why would they do anything that does anyone any good apart from themselves?
They can afford not to be altruistic. They are above the foul stinking masses: they don't need to be concerned with their neighbor's child having enough to eat that he doesn't try to steal bread from your table.