I am really not sure who you are talking about here.Pops wrote:Basically, he said calling it an equality issue in the first place is the problem. They should frame it instead as a moral issue. Expecting equality of outcome rather than opportunity is where the left runs into resistance from the middle probably and the right certainly.
We lived in a world of growing energy supply and increasing crop yields, not a zero sum world at all. Now we can be said to be moving into a zero sum world perhaps.Since then we have been in a Zero Sum World.
The average westerner lives in a relatively risk free painless world. We have health services (well in most countries ) that ensure that we rarely feel real pain, worry about staying alive and are cosseted in pain killers when we do contract incurable maladies. We had little to worry about in terms of growing old as there was a guarenteed provision and little to worry about losing the job as you would not starve.Sure, "wealth" has increased, or the illusion of wealth anyway.
We can live successfull balanced lives for most of our citizens in a world of declining energy. It will be a matter of distribution and conservation. "Can" however requires the foresite to not try to hold on to what we had and recognise the need to re-orginise. What will happen is likely to be uglier greedier and fail.In a declining energy world the game is less and less zero sum and more and more negative sum. Now, "getting ahead" might keep someone else down, soon simply getting-by might mean someone else doesn't.
Words from the court of Louis XVI.Cog wrote:Stealing other people's pie is a serious crime and will be punished severely.
He had an army of foreign merceneries and la Garde nationale. History not a strong point then.Cog wrote:Louis the XVI did not have a union police force that has been conditioned to mow people down in the street.
History really not a strong point then.Cog wrote:Trust me on this. The police and military will do precisely what they are ordered to do as the riots begin.
Cog wrote:Louis the XVI did not have a union police force that has been conditioned to mow people down in the street. Trust me on this. The police and military will do precisely what they are ordered to do as the riots begin.
Cog wrote:Progressive do not want to cut anything. To them, its always a revenue problem. If only they could tax the rich, they believe free skittles could be provided to all.
Pops wrote:lefties believe ... the pie will always get bigger.
ralfy wrote:The problem isn't "left" and "right" but capitalism.
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