From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 00:35:42 MDT
>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>
>Zero Powers wrote:
> > I'm a willing capitalist now. But there are many in our society who
>don't
> > have my luck and/or ability. Some of them live at a level of
>subsistence
> > which IMO is beneath that fit for a human. That saddens me. I believe
>that
> > someday we'll be able to do better. That's *all* I was saying.
>
>Such people are the way they are because they buy the lie that they
>deserve more than what they've got, that they should not have to work
>for it. It saddens me that purportedly intelligent people like you
>continue to give such failed ideas credence, which condemns generations
>of millions of people to lives of squalor, hate, resentment, and failure
>because they are programmed to beleive the lie you give credence to.
Do you actually believe that capitalism can provide the means to universally
eradicate poverty? That if every "lazy, stupid" etc. poor person "got off
their lazy ass" they could live a life of abundance? Have you *ever*
traveled to the third world? Can you possibly believe that the only reason
some people are poor is because they are "programmed" to believe the lie
that they cannot live any other way?
Compared to Lorrey economics, the Lorrey drive looks downright feasible ;)
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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