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Richest 2% own half the world's wealth
Re: Richest 2% own half the world's wealth
by EnergyUnlimited » Thu 07 Dec 2006, 12:18:47
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '.')..Cuba...
All your other examples are completely valid, but I wonder about Cuba. How much do we know about the distribution of wealth on that little island? If there is any place on the planet where things might be a little different, perhaps that's it.
Maybe not, though. I really don't know.
Well, may be you got me here, but my personal feelings are, that Mr Fidel Castro & family clan somehow owns entire Cuba.
I know, his estranged wife is in Spain etc, and this is bringing some doubt.
OK, one can argue that loving residents really wont to give this island to him, and there is no offence in it.
However I cannot imagine any important decision on Cuba taken without Mr Castro approval.
He may be either "shadow owner" of this island or a "father of all Cubans" perhaps.
But this is only my perception. I can be wrong.
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Re: Richest 2% own half the world's wealth
by smallpoxgirl » Thu 07 Dec 2006, 13:54:05
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '[')i]If we decided tommorow to divide equally all the wealth on the Earth between all the people, than 1 day later we would have today's situation again
The way you get into that top 1% income bracket is the same way you get into congress....by being a lying, scheming, thief. Now you may be right that if the wealth was redistributed the lying scheming thieves would scam their way back to the top. Seems to me like an excellent arguement for why an aspect of the wealth redistribution needs to include the drawing and quartering of those top 1%ers as a warning against any future attempts at such disreputable behaviour."We were standing on the edges
Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
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Re: Richest 2% own half the world's wealth
by NEOPO » Thu 07 Dec 2006, 14:02:18
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '[')i]If we decided tommorow to divide equally all the wealth on the Earth between all the people, than 1 day later we would have today's situation again
The way you get into that top 1% income bracket is the same way you get into congress....by being a lying, scheming, thief. Now you may be right that if the wealth was redistributed the lying scheming thieves would scam their way back to the top. Seems to me like an excellent arguement for why an aspect of the wealth redistribution needs to include the drawing and quartering of those top 1%ers as a warning against any future attempts at such disreputable behaviour.amen to that sister.....
Its a reinforcing thought that elitist plant into our little brains much like "might as well buy a new one and throw that old widget away".
Might as well go into massive debt and be a slave to a company for the rest of our lives because.....everyone else is doing it and living such a great life today because of it that there must be nothing wrong with it...........
Redistribute the wealth great but allow monopolies and central banking schemes and expect the wealth to stay evenly distributed?? I dont think so.......
Its like telling me that there is something I cannot do yet I have done it many times already........
Ah the stench of apathy........
It is easier to enslave a people that wish to remain free then it is to free a people who wish to remain enslaved.
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