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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (20975)5/14/2004 3:02:24 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 81108
 
Ray > They loathed it [capitalism] for the same reasons that thinking individuals loathe it today

But what is the alternative? Socialism? Communism? Maybe for you but not for me. The idea may be nice in theory but impossible to implement in practice. Experience has shown when the rich have been "liquidated" and the redistribution party is over, either the system collapses or it becomes even more totalitarian and corrupt.

Truth is, it is not possible to make the poor rich by making the rich poor. In fact, it is much easier to make the rich richer by making the poor poorer which seems to be what happens in all systems and which leads to their eventual destruction. Indeed, as far as I can make out, all that happens in a socialist system is a new bunch of self-seeking elites appear. This exchange of elites is what "revolution" seems to be all about. The workers are stuffed whichever way they turn so there's not much point to even consider them.

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The problem with capitalism today is that it is destroying itself, I believe, because the rich want to get "too" rich. But it won't happen. A study of the dinosaurs shows us that.
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