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To: Horgad who wrote (103539)	10/31/2013 1:11:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218074

I have learned, worked, saved and invested all my life to concentrate wealth. <unless you are making some kind of a joke, you would do well not to base your pro wealth concentration arguments on what is or isn't a sin. > It is not only not a sin to "concentrate wealth" aka create wealth it is the purpose of life and in full compliance with the four forces of the apocalypse and the teleological foundations of existence. Nothing less than a theological obligation. You are probably confusing "collecting money" with "creating wealth". Most people confuse money with wealth. Money is like a metre, kilogram, lumen, rad, gallon, hectare, minute or joule. They are merely units of measurement, not units of wealth. A $ is primarily a unit of measure though it is mistakenly assumed to be a unit of wealth too. It sort of is, in an ephemeral kind of way. Just as a joule is a measure of possession of energy, in an ephemeral kind of way. Somebody could promise somebody 100 joules. One could have a piece of paper with "100 Joules" written on it. But that is not actual energy. Similarly, one could have a piece of paper with "$100" written on it, but that is not actual wealth. Wealth is actual real things which are useful, and therefore of value, doing things that people want done. It's the action that matters. $100 and J100 are actual wealth to the extent that money is actually something doing something useful, so it is paradoxically real, but only to the extent that it actually does do something, that is, measures actual wealth and is used to transact it. You can see the falsehood that mere $100 notes are wealth by the fact that the Fed could produce bales of $billions of bucks, stack them on pallets in a warehouse, and they would just sit there, being not actually worth anything. If the fed spent them, or gave them to people to spend, that would not create wealth, it would merely displace other people who foolishly held $ who would have their wealth proportionately reduced. More easily, the Federal Reserve could pixelate $1 trillion credit notes [to save on warehouse space]. Bales of bucks are more fun to visualize. My pro-wealth-concentration argument is primarily a moral one. A Virtuous Victorian Value. It is the foundation virtue. The highway on which existence runs. The sin qua non and ipso facto of existence [okay, I admit I never did study latin so it might be better to leave that bit off, but it sounds really good, having not checked Google to see what sin qua non means]. In theological circles, there is first Good, aka God. The Devil and evil [d'evil in french] come AFTER God created the four forces of the apocalypse and all that came after. There can't be evil until there is first good because evil doesn't produce things and make existence. Evil is just a parasite, like a cancer cell, that can exist once good has been created and cannot be bigger than its host. Virtuous Victorian Values rulz ok, Mqurice