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To: TimF who wrote (26531)	9/6/2012 12:19:36 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

The only fact is that productivity correlates very well with education. Get people better educated and you will increase your productivity much better than giving all the money to the very rich and hoping some falls on you. They rich do not want to pay for public schools, which is why society must force them. Education is the answer to increased productivity, not pandering to rich people. Besides when you get educated people you also get a more thoughtful society and the productive people don't want to dominate you so much. A person changes greatly when they get educated. So you cannot judge them the same way regardless of education. <<No its fact. Its not a black and white fact, most people are productive to a certain extent, but there are some who are unproductive through choice or disability, and there are others who are extremely productive. The extremely productive often do well for themselves, but they usually generate more money for others than themselves (and that's before considering taxes, or charitable contributions, the actions of their job, their investments, or their business produce more benefit for others than the benefit they themselves see. In other words a majority of the wealthy create a positive externality in the process of gaining their wealth.