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Undertoad · 08-22-2009, 07:20 AM

Wealth is not a pie to be divided up and when it's gone it's gone. Wealth is mostly creation of things that were not there previously. The wealthy don't get wealthy because they managed to sneak themselves a bigger piece of pie. Most wealthy get wealthy because they find or build a bigger pie.

Maybe this is easier to see in a young culture, where 120 years ago there was fuck-all and now there's awesome wealth. If we were all still arguing about the pie of 1900 we'd all still be poor.

08-22-2009, 07:20 AM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Wealth is not a pie to be divided up and when it's gone it's gone. Wealth is mostly creation of things that were not there previously. The wealthy don't get wealthy because they managed to sneak themselves a bigger piece of pie. Most wealthy get wealthy because they find or build a bigger pie. Maybe this is easier to see in a young culture, where 120 years ago there was fuck-all and now there's awesome wealth. If we were all still arguing about the pie of 1900 we'd all still be poor.

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