Re: Latest News

From: Mark Fergerson (nunya_at_biz.ness)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:37:44 -0700

R. Steve Walz wrote:

> John Larkin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:16:25 -0700, Mark Fergerson
<nunya@biz.ness>
>> wrote:

>>>> But we live in a society of excess already, so most of
the arguments
>>>> about class and wealth are moot.

>>> That's what I was trying to tell RSW. It's approaching
>>> the situation with royalty in the U.K. and other countries
>>> that maintain them for show.

   I can see a day when those genetically predisposed to
excessive wealth acquisition are kept in elaborately gilded
cages, smirkingly waited upon hand and foot and bowed and
scraped to, just to keep them out of everyone else's way.
Come to think of it, it's already happening...

>> Someone recently noted that anybody can go to a nearby
gas station
>> mini-mart and, for $6 or so, buy a better bottle of wine
than any
>> French king ever tasted.

> Totally unimportant to the issue.
> If the peon had to work only an hour a day, and the rich
not at all,
> I'd still be saying "KILL THE RICH!!"

   You just don't get it. The wealthy have always worked
_all day long_ at being wealthy, no matter how many hours
the "peons" they thought they were "managing" worked per day
(and they're "managing" themselves out of existence faster
than any State could wither itself away).

   They are absolute slaves to their "wealth acquisition"
behaviors, with no time at all to spare for "nonproductive"
pursuits. Have you never noticed what abysmal morons rich
people tend to be on any subject other than acquiring money?

   Have you never noticed that once a wealthy person
acquires interests other than acquiring wealth, the first
thing they do is start giving away as much of it as possible
so they aren't enslaved by it any more?

   Get a grip Steve, and yank your political thinking out of
the 19th century. The rest of the world is passing you by.

   Mark L. Fergerson

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