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The function for wealth is such:
(raw material) x (invention/innovation) = wealth
Gee, that’s an interesting “function”. Let’s have a look. Raw material = Resources right? Does that include human resources? I’m asking because I don’t see any factor representing actual work by people in there. Perhaps you meant to include it under invention. Cause it’s kind of important. If it’s represented by “raw material” then you’ve just equated people with any number of raw materials, let’s say, meat. People are meat eh? But no. You obviously meant to include it in invention/innovation. It’s a pretty simple formula. But if the work required exceeds the production capabilities of a lone individual he will be forced to enter into agreements with other people. Damn people. Now they’re gonna be wanting a share of the innovators “wealth”. How much do they deserve? Let’s look at what wealth is. Personally, I’d have to say that the “function” for wealth is: (commodities necessary for survival)–(commodities on hand). You might argue “that’s not wealth, that’s profit, or a simple surplus” and you would be right to, because your society’s definition of wealth includes influence and power over other peoples’ lives, but there are a few little problems with this. As humans we know that power and responsibility are at least joined, if not one and the same. Assuming the wealthy and powerful are responsible for that which they have built around them, they must accept responsibility for the poor, for poverty is a byproduct of their creation, and, once again, a drain on resources. Where there is wealth, there are scavengers. It is the way of nature. If there is a river, all will try to drink. The wealthy and powerful might have the right to exile it’s scavengers, but that’s become impossible since the wealthy and powerful have claimed that they require all of the worlds habitable lands for their purposes, and expend great resources in defending their claim. So they’re stuck with them. Responsible for them.
Then there’s time. It would be a different world if everyone generated their wealth through your formula. But it doesn’t really work that way. Innovators create great mechanisms for generating wealth, and focus great power for a time. Then they die, and the wealth and power, still highly focused, passes into the hands of managers. Managers whose only abilities and capabilities exist to maintain and increase the wealth. Most often, these “heirs” gain access to the power by simple proximity. They belong to the same culture, socioeconomic group, went to the same schools, lived in the same places, and mostly, were in the same family. Practically everything they have was handed to them because they were in the right place, at the right time, and close to the right person or small group of people. And talk about a sense of entitlement! That they have no actual physical skills is darkly amusing. The true source of wealth is cut off, entropy takes over, and slowly, eventually, they again begin the vicious circle that is the foundation of your system. The suffering poor are motivated to improve their circumstances, create in order to relieve it and round and round we go. And there’s the truth of it; you have been trained to both fear and love suffering. You believe that it’s the primary source of human motivation. It is you who relegate us to the status of ants and bees.
But we are human beings. Our greatest suffering is not physical. It’s emotional, philosophical, intellectual, and spiritual anguish that leaves the greatest mark on us. And it’s this suffering that motivates our greatest advancements, and these usually in opposition to “natural” progression. We cure diseases, we learn that it’s wrong to try to own other people, that it’s wrong to kill whole groups of people, we develop technologies to facilitate better communication, and we work to improve our community. You believe that you work for yourself, and that somehow the product of that work is yours alone to distribute as you see fit. This would be fine if you were a mountain man, but you’re not. You choose to live among the rest of us, and in return, we expect you to bear your share of the responsibility. Yet you cling to the idea that the physical component of suffering is not only our greatest social motivator, but that it’s justice. Why? In your case it’s because it’s what you’ve been taught to believe, but the root of the problem is simple primal fear. Something less than human within you that creeps up and pushes you to desire more than you can ever foreseeably need, because tragedy may strike at any time. Because at any time you may need all of the resources at your disposal just to survive, and damn the rest. You divide to conquer. You divide society into the “government” and the “market” and attempt to use the government as a tool of the market, rather than the reverse, preferring the system that addresses our desires, because the greedy, obsessed with their own desires, are skilled at manipulating the desires of others, rather than that which represents our ideals, and use instruments(like currency) to further stratify the population, all in the hopes that you can protect yourself, putting more and more bodies between you and that which you fear. But humans are stronger together. And to be human is to be courageous and generous. You claim that feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and sheltering the homeless “destroys families”. I think that starving, disease, and freezing does more harm.
Just a few more words. At this point you may be thinking that I’m a communist. I’m not. I can envision a society that meets the basic needs for all without depriving individuals of their rights or the product of their own efforts. But I can see this because I have been given the opportunity to see the flaws in the two main ideologies most people’s minds are trapped in. I have arguments equally as scathing for those who claim to be on the “left”, but I haven’t addressed them because that’s not the direction you’re coming from. I’ve written this behemoth tl;dr in support of the idea that it’s time to end this ridiculous poverty problem, that it’s the responsibility of society and it’s chosen government, and that if individuals were capable of rising to the challenge through charity it would have already been eliminated. I haven’t said how, and though I know, that knowledge is irrelevant as long as there are people like you, who somehow believe that the poor are just getting what they deserve; that it’s a natural and necessary state of being. Now go learn to be a man, instead of a business man. Learn that what is in your head is more important than what is in your pockets. Quit spitting out your poorly understood impressions of other peoples obsolete and discredited ideas. Learn that honorable skills involve growing food, building shelter and tools, and scholarship. Men whose “work” consists of trading and distributing the product of those skills and that work are like the parasites that infect the brains of, and change the behavior of their hosts. And realize that these parasites(lawyers, accountants, salesmen, and corporate managers and officers among others) are still far too numerous among us.
I guess things aren't as fucking
obvious as you thought, 'eh?
At least this time you tried to present a position, instead of sniping at selected points in my posts.