RE: I Wish This Was A Joke
January 24, 2015 at 11:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2015 at 11:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 24, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Heywood Wrote: You can always make one person better off by giving them things belonging to another. But on the whole are you going to make the world better off?Yup.
Quote: If all of Bill Gates assets were given to Joe Dirt, would the world be better off?Yup.
Quote:Joe Dirt would be better off.Yup
Quote: Bill Gates would be worse off,Unlikely
Quote:and everyone else would probably be worse off too because it is unlikely that Joe Dirt is going to be a better manager of those assets than Bill Gates is.He only has to manage them from his hand to his mouth...remember, people are starving. Your analogy displays the lack of scope you approach this issue with. "Joe Dirt" is fine. Mbebe Hubuku is not.
Quote:Look, I am all for re-distributing money. You've heard me time and time again espouse a universal basic income. My point in this thread is to point out that the rich do not own most of the stuff that actually makes peoples lives better.Uh-huh...
Quote: In terms of stuff that people actually want to consume, rich people own very little of it.I think that many, many people would like to consume a little buying power for food.
Quote: The bulk of that kind of stuff is in the hands of everyone else.Of course, because the bulk of everyone else is busy manufacturing it for the massa.
Quote: Taking shares of Microsoft away from Bill Gates and giving them to Joe Dirt isn't going to make the world a better place.Bill Gates would appear to disagree.
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