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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Perfect world models are silly unless you are stoned or tripping on acid
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Think of the world if we gave all people equal opportunity at the moment of our birth. Do you not think that some would lead while others would follow? Would not some become great successes while others become common criminals? You seem to equate wealth with a poor sense of morality. As though the rich are somehow taking advantage of the poor by being rich?
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That's a sort of game. set. match. thing. There is really no combatting this example. If you leveled the playing field, it would just become unequal immediately again. Well said.
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
If not for that dream, whats to motivate the poor? Why work hard to achieve when Sommerfrost is going to steal from the rich so that we have "equality"?
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I struggle with this idea -- as I would like for our government to tax the wildly wealthy more (not 90% though), but then again the government may not be the best source of success in combatting poverty given their incredible track record thus far. So no matter how you approach it, you end up at the same problem. We need more money and more resources to combat poverty and the wild inequality we have -- but what do we do? We take the money from the rich and let the government waste it on ineffective ways to motivate the poor and poverty stricken? It's a catch-22, because you lose both ways. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying we haven't figured out how to do it yet. How do we really help those stuck in poverty and unable to get out while at the same time not just handing money over to those in poverty due to their laziness and lack of motivation? You can't have a motivation test on paper to determine who gets the actual help and who gets a hearty "too bad for you."
And it's far easier when i'm not wildly rich, because I'm pretty sure that if I somehow got there, I'd be pissy about people wanting more of my money too because I would say I had earned it fair and square.....