Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon...
by SalmoShalazar on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:10PM
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I think you may be confusing Atlas Shrugged with reality my friend.
Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon...
by zo1 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:55PM
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Well, are his ideas/comments/arguments valid or invalid? Or are you simply dismissing it because it's too-similar to a line of thinking that is often popularized by a single book?
Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon...
by drumdance on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:49PM
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Lots and lots and LOTs of sectors are heavily regulated, which leads to rent seeking which leads to protectionism, either via foreign trade barriers or just making it bureaucratically difficult for competitors to enter (i.e. Uber getting flack from municipalities).
For a long time the rent-seeking was done by unions, but these days its more commonly done by corporations.
If people can't even keep their own money earned for themselves, you are just killing the incentive to even earn it at the first place. You seem to suggesting we must periodically make the rich, poor. This kind of equality is more dangerous than inequality. Look up the failure of socialist/communist set ups in past century that will tell you why this is such a bad idea.
The whole scheme over time feels like punishing people for working hard and generating wealth, while remainder free loads on the assumption they are entitled to free money.
What follow next is exodus of smart, hard working people to better countries.