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To: Road Walker who wrote (367870)	1/22/2008 1:59:19 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575931

"But these guys won't even admit that it's a zero sum game... so how do we expect them to understand that there is a distribution problem?" They don't consider it a problem. Back when I had a co-worker who religiously listened to Rush, I heard him several times praise the Gilded Age. What can you say to that kind of belief system? So, there are those who think the Gilded Age was an ideal time. In some respects, it was. That was when the US quickly became a world power. Although it didn't really realize it until later. But, it wasn't sustainable. There were a series of panics, eventually culminating in the Great Depression because of the unequal wealth distribution. But, like many bad ideas, there are those who think that it wasn't basically flawed and needs to be tried again. But the problem is convincing others that it is a good idea. How to do that? So they have developed a huge pile of sophisms to guide discussions. There are catch phrases like "class warfare" that get thrown out to derail discussions. There are the memes like the "it isn't a zero sum game" that you are seeing with Tim. They even have special definitions for words. Which often means you think you are having one conversation and they think it means something else. But, it is all a means to cloud the issues and make sure pragmatic decisions don't get made.