To Bail or Not to Bail...

[BlackDragon37]

Keep thinking you can justify the disproportionate amount of suffering in the world by picking certain economic concepts that support your interests while forgetting about the rest of the picture. I'm sure it helps you sleep at night.

You seriously think that wealth can be distributed fairly?

 

[Marginal]

You seriously think that wealth can be distributed fairly?

It's the calculating someone's overall merit by how much they make that's repugnant and insane.

 

[iKotomi]

You seriously think that wealth can be distributed fairly?

I don't believe in income redistribution. I do believe that there is a way to allow a greater equality in opportunity than a lassaize-faire approach that rewards people that already have large amounts of capital (social, physical, etc.). Any real economist knows that opportunity is how you ultimately help poor people the best.

Bending the model to conclude that poor people are forever doomed is sickening, especially when you justify it by spouting out bullshit that there are people who deserve to be rich or dirt poor. Because that is totally wrong. They are rich or poor ultimately because that is the environment they are born in. A poor person has to work disproportionately harder to even dream of having the same chances as a rich person. I don't envy rich people, nor do I ask for their money. I just don't believe that most of them did something that I could have done that made them deserve to be richer than I am.

 

[Archangel]

Any real economist knows that opportunity is how you ultimately help poor people the best.

Ugh. Please don't beg the question, it makes my brain hurt. You're smarter than that.

 

[D_Matt_Ma]

He's made it clear he sleeps better knowing this. Proves he's superior genetic stock.

I have insomnia. But even if I didn't, I would NOT sleep well at night because this is NOT the way it works. If it did, unions wouldn't exist and politiciains would not get paid anywhere near the amount they do.

As for all you people thinking I am so mean and heartless, here's a dose of reality. You do not deserve to have fun. You do not deserve to have a family. Owning a home and retiring are also not rights. You do not deserve second chances. People who want any of the above must make sacrifices. If you want the above badly enough, you wouldn't be on this board talking, as SC4 is also a luxury.

Here's hoping CA files bankruptcy.