RE: Trump versus Clinton?
March 13, 2016 at 7:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 7:01 pm by Brian37.)
(March 11, 2016 at 5:39 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 3:29 pm)abaris Wrote: The times when only good looking people could hope for being a successful actor/actress are over for a few decades by now. It has more to do with chance and coincidence. If only good looking people made it, Steve Buschemi wouldn't be a star and half the cast of Game of Thrones wouldn't keep their contracts.
There was never a time when only good looking people could hope to be a successful in acting. Again that wasn't the point I'm making anyway. I was saying that people are born with attributes that subtract or add to their value all the time, Bill Gates isn't exceptional in that way. The reason why these people have value is because of the freedom of choice other people have, being good looking is often an advantage when it comes to getting on TV, yes that's not the only way to get on TV, people can invest time in learning acting or be naturally gifted in acting or in being funny, whatever it is, it boils down to, it's people choosing what they want to see on TV what they want is what adds or subtracts value in the acting market place. Putting everyone on an even level of value, as Kitan was suggesting, is taking away the freedom of people to choose what they think is more or less valuble. It's either that or your going to allow people choose and distribute the money to what they put value in and then you steal off the people who have more and give it to those who have less.
No it isn't more or less valuable just different. It still remains that the bulk of any society are the workers, not those with the money or the power. It is really no different than sperm trying to get at an egg, the majority don't get to it. It isn't advocating everyone be poor or that people don't value different things, just that nobody is more important than anyone else. We are still in this together.
And bullshit, voting is not theft. If we only do what the rich say all the time then there is no point in having voting at all, just only have the rich vote. When we only allow rich power over an economy that is called a plutocracy.
In our current climate the rich are stealing from the rest of us. Corporate welfare are the taxes they dodge and the rest of us have to make up for.
You have bought into old cold war bullshit.