(01-23-2009 10:02 AM)firmbizzle Wrote: (01-23-2009 08:53 AM)Paul M Wrote: (01-23-2009 01:52 AM)firmbizzle Wrote: If we need to take from our earners to produce more wealth in the future, then so be it.
You are truely confused as to how to create wealth.
You are blinded by idealogy.
As are you. Except you have no evidence to support your position. Wealth has always been created by collecting resources and having them work in cooperation. Whether done by force, or by the will of a charismatic leader, it's the way.
Now the scale of such an operation can vary. It may be the simple shoemaker's hut, where he gathers the material and operates the tools himself, and sells them from his dutch door...creating wealth in a slow fashion. Or it can be the Nike shoe company, operating several factories and distibution networks...creating wealth on a tremendous scale.
Sharing that wealth divides the tools for efficient production. The wealth will get smaller.
A free market, by definition, allows those with a mind to, to start putting those wealth creating pieces together, at the most efficient way possible. There is no guarantee that their endeavor will be successful, but they have the best chance at it.
A free market doesn't mean zero regulations, but rather it means only those that keep opportunity available. The real crime are oppressive regulations (and that includes a tax code) that prevent the utilization of resources except on a grand scale. This is what prevents the poor from getting rich, because the tools are then held in check by the "haves."
Many have abused this through the millennia...from land barons to robber barons...czars to CEOs...pharoahs to plantation owners. But the real travesty today are people like Ted Turner or Jerry Yang, folks who got theirs in a free market, then support the party that would prevent others from competing.