RE: I Wish This Was A Joke
January 22, 2015 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 6:20 pm by Davka.)
(January 21, 2015 at 1:35 pm)Heywood Wrote: You asked, "So you're saying most of the resources at their disposal are of no practical use to them, while millions starve for want of them?".
Bill Gates doesn't have Wharehouses full of stuff that he can buy. The only resources that are exclusively at his disposal are the ones he already owns.....like his house and toilet paper. Those other resources....well they are at the disposal of everyone else too. They are already in the market....making people other than Bill Gates better off.
If you honestly don't believe that Gates has billions of dollars at his disposal, or that those dollars are somehow "not resources," then you are a moron.
(January 22, 2015 at 3:13 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 21, 2015 at 1:23 pm)Davka Wrote: We're not talking about ONE RICH PERSON's stuff, we're talking about HALF THE STUFF IN THE FUCKING WORLD!!!!!
And frankly, I don't need any more stuff. But there are a whole lot of people who do.
Negative Davka, rich people do not have half the stuff in the fucking world. That is my point. Rich people have half the fucking 0s in the ledgers of the world. You can't eat a 0. You can't drink a 0. You can't drive a 0.
If those zeros are transferred to someone else's ledger, that someone else can go to the store and buy food. They can buy beer. They can buy a car.
Just because most money is numbers in computers these days doesn't mean it's not "real." I buy stuff with zeros all the time. I rarely use cash - most everything is plastic, allowing zeros to be transferred from my bank's computer to the store's bank's computer.
