sorry, i don't believe in even distribution...
i believe if you want something you go out and earn it. alot of people who are rich are rich because they earned it. take bill gates for example, he's rich because he earned it.
granted there are some people who get rich without earning it, such as the lottery which is something i don't like and don't think we should have it. or others use dishonest methods to attain wealth.
but like i said, all earthly systems have their flaws and cracks that people can slip through, even communism.
a lot of people have been killed by religious zealots claiming to be christians, but they really weren't.
hee- look what i found:
Socialism: You have two cows. Give one cow to your neighbor.
let him get off his lazy butt and get his own cow...
i'm all for helping people, but i'm not one for condoning laziness. if my neighbour is in need because he's a lazy bum, then i would have a hard time lending him a hand. but if he's genuinely down on his luck, then i would help him gladly.
Capitalism: You have two cows. Sell one cow and buy a bull.
makes the most sense to me. that way you can have even more cows and have more to help other people with.
i think that people should always help out others who have less, but they should have that freedom to choose whether they do or not. they shouldn't be forced into being charitable.
Bill Gates-*sighs* what a C**T!
Agreed though, he earned most of his wealth and I'm sure he's very happy screwing people over for a new OS every 6 months. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />
With wealth comes power AND responsibility, the capitalist system does not make people return the results of their good fortune to the state. Taxes are virtually even for every pay bracket.
If it were for people like you I would never have had an education. Fortanately I was one of the last poeple (mid nineties) to qualify for a student grant in the UK. I see the amount of debt people have to pay for the right to an education now and frankly, it stinks.
I had several friends who weren't so lucky however. They went through 3 years of college on loans of over 10,000 pounds per year. What is the point of getting a job when you could get just as much cash doing nothing. (UK student loans have a stipulation which requires you to be employed to start repaying)
I can thank the fact that I am sitting here in this chair with a (good) job to a policy implemented by a socialist government in the UK of the '70s. A policy that was torn apart and slowly destroyed over the next 15 years by a conservative government. A government that helped drag the boom-bust economy back into being and wiped out the economic stability of a country for a quick fix.
One thing, I agree on the religious zealot point. The name of many a belief has been perverted to commit the worst imaginable atrocities, even that of the muselim faith.
The cow thing was obviously written by a capitalist. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Should be "One man has 100 cows and taxes the crap out of everyone else for milk"
Some people can achieve great things with more state help. I would have been stuck in my back-ass white trash home town now if I hadn't had a break. Think about that before you tell someone to 'get off his lazy ass'. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
