RE: Give the richest power and the economy stabilizes. This is good.
November 20, 2011 at 10:15 pm
(November 18, 2011 at 8:16 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: You don't "give" the richest people power. Rich people(by rich, I don't mean like "celebrity rich") obtain power as a nice side effect of their efforts to maximize profits.
What the fuck are you talking about? We are "giving" rich people power. It was not always a nice side effect. The revolutionaries who founded this country were rich business people and, hold your breath, broke ass motherfuckers.
Samuel Adams managed to lose most of his family's assets by not collecting taxes for the British as the tax collector and was sued for it.
Flash forward, Abraham Lincoln, born broke, died nearly broke.
Move forward even further, William Jennings Bryan (dear old deluded, but generally good, great, great, great grandpa), not a big business man, almost became the President of the U.S. and was very much for keeping power in the hands of the little guy.
Keep going forward and . . . shit, we've got oil tycoons.
