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Originally posted by SultryMal
who says the didnt earn it? and if they did why do they deserve to get it taken away? for working hard they get punished? isnt a basic fundemental in our economy that we can strive for a higher life style? how can we gain that if we get it taken away?
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You missed the point. Don't you see, in your system, after a whille all you have are the heirs of the kids whose daddy's once made fortunes (on the backs of repressed labor, in many cases) living on one side of a wall -- and the people who toil to keep their floors clean on the other. You defend it by saying things like "what's wrong with keeping what i earned?" -- but you forget that people do more with money (the really wealthy and powerful) than live comfortably. they use that power to amend legislature and shape society into a distorted form that makes things easier and easier for them. here, let me give you an example -- if rich is having a million dollars in the bank, what i'm talking about is having enough money (collectively) to inflict your will on a whole country of people. what do you think asserted itself in the election 2 days ago? it was the ages-old mutually propagating coalition between wealth and separatism. what do you think republicans do but fortify the wall between a privleged, morally-unassailable class and everyone else?
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