kevbone Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Does it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete_H Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Why don't you sell your spleen to the highest bidder and find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Conway Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 I'll give you $50 for a finger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 wtf bone why aren't you at the Eddie Van/David Lee Roth concert tonight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Does it work? Â I thought you stopped caring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Poverty is man made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Poverty is man made. i've never seen a wealthy marmot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Poverty is man made. i've never seen a wealthy marmot. Â Look harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akhalteke Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Poverty is man made. Â Poverty is human nature, wealth and opulence are manmade. Being in Africa right now, I can tell you that the lack of capitalism has not taken a hatchet to poverty in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Poverty is man made. Â Poverty is human nature, wealth and opulence are manmade. Being in Africa right now, I can tell you that the lack of capitalism has not taken a hatchet to poverty in any way. Â If all the wealth in the world was put to better use than greed we could house and feed the entire planet. Â Poverty is man made. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Why can't money just be free???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 If all the wealth in the world was put to better use than greed we could house and feed the entire planet. find out the global gdp, then divide it by the global population, then report back your conclusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 i'll spare you having to look up the numbers: Â something like $63 trillion in 2010, and 7 billion meat-popsicles currently stumbling around terra firma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Yeah, and how much of that GDP would vanish the minute the working poor no longer had to keep working in the factories and sweat-shops? Much of our economic value is at the expense of many. All simple-minded bumper-sticker platitudes aside, if you just equally divided the planet's wealth (even if you had enough to distribute), things as we know them would basically collapse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Yeah, and how much of that GDP would vanish the minute the working poor no longer had to keep working in the factories and sweat-shops? Much of our economic value is at the expense of many. All simple-minded bumper-sticker platitudes aside, if you just equally divided the planet's wealth (even if you had enough to distribute), things as we know them would basically collapse. i agree - 9000$ person isn't exactly a fortune anyhow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selkirk Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Poverty is man made. Â Poverty is human nature, wealth and opulence are manmade. Being in Africa right now, I can tell you that the lack of capitalism has not taken a hatchet to poverty in any way. Â If all the wealth in the world was put to better use than greed we could house and feed the entire planet. Â Poverty is man made. Â Tenets of socialism / communism. Works great assuming nice altruistic people. It's too bad people are basically self serving, rotten little beasties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Â It's more fun to have rich people to hate and be jealous of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 It's more fun to have rich people to hate and be jealous of. no reason you can't hate rich assholes just as much as poor ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 It's more fun to have rich people to hate  Well, certainly many of them deserve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Does it work? you might define "work" - historically, it's been plenty succesful in producing wealth and conquering the world - if our space exploration is ever to get anywhere significant, it'll take capitalism to underwrite it i bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Assuming all wealth was evenly distributed among world population, using an agency model what is the time interval t after which the present level of inequality would become re-established? Â Show your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Does it work? you might define "work" - historically, it's been plenty succesful in producing wealth and conquering the world - if our space exploration is ever to get anywhere significant, it'll take capitalism to underwrite it i bet. Â A better question is, how well does it work in comparison to other economic systems. Despite it's many flaws, I'm not sure humanity has yet to find a better system -- although we keep modifying capitalism in various attempts to squash its darker, nastier aspects, to greater or lesser degrees of success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 How about a resource based economy were our resources work for us instead of raping the land for profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 were our resources work for us . Â They say fire's a good servant but a bad master. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 How about a resource based economy were our resources work for us instead of raping the land for profit. Â Then we'd all have enough free time to spend our days lazily dancing around fields of flowers and butterflies to the sound of lutes while nature's glorious bounty provided the life of a King to one and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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