by dis » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:57 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>[btw, how do you put quotes up without having to type it all in? the box comes up when i click quote, but it wont let me drag the passage into the box]<br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:blue;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;">quote: how do we limit wealth and power within the modern economic system?<br><br>first, you learn it, you study it, you decide whether you agree it is necessary and good and possible [i can prove in a minute that everyone already agrees]<br><br>second, teach people to want it with great understanding and determination: just wordofmouth, teaching it to just one person a month, can reach every adult in the world in 33 months, therefore there is no problem spreading the word if people are prepared to be serious about it [bigbusiness is more powerful than the the govt, so no use going to the govt leaders, they are in the pocket; historically, the people, when aroused, are the only thing that can bring down the corrupt and indecent plutocracies]<br><br>third, when there is a universal clear idea and will to do it, pass laws preventing accumulation of fortunes from generation to generation - you can even allow unlimited fortunes in a person's lifetime, but you effectively prevent endless accumulation over generations, by taking all but say $10 million of the fortune on decease, and spreading it as directly as possible [electronically, straight into bank accounts, with safeguards so no one can get hands on it] to the most severely underpaid, thus limiting overpower/tyranny and simultaneously compensating people for underpay, and thus preventing the crime and poverty shameful to a great state [not as charity, but as justice - the poor have usually worked as hard or harder, in more unpleasant jobs, than most]<br><br>such a law would not reduce incomes of 99.9999% of the population [instead, the watering of the economy from the roots will ceaselessly freshen all economic levels as the money rises thru the modern economic system, in which money ceaselessly drifts from underpaid to overpaid], it would prevent tyranny, it would prevent severe poverty [social stresses and costs are proportional to the range of wealth and poverty] - 99.9999% of the population would have nothing against the idea, and the 99.9999% could probably push the 0.0001% around to their will - the law would be just, because no one can really earn $500,000 per hour [gates's average hourly pay over his working lifetime] and the law would only prevent the highest hrly payrate going endlessly higher than gates's [to really earn $500,000 an hour, gates would have to produce $500,000 of goods and services by his work every hour - eg build from nothing except nature a $500,000 house every hour, or produce 500,000 cans of beans per hour]<br><br>hey, it was the american dream - jefferson, from the perspective of distance fom european tyranny they fled from, could clearly see that superwealth=tyranny, so the first thing they did after signing the declaration was to take steps to try to prevent overpay/tyranny [prohibit entail and primogeniture and fix clergy salaries] - defeated by the rise of the corporation, which never dies, in which money can accumulate multigenerationally - price of liberty is eternal vigilance - to prevent superoverpay, superoverpower</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i></i>
