Just interviewed a guest on @talkRADIO who claimed the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma is due to inequality. Not the wind then. Sigh.
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So the solution to hurricane-force winds then is strong democracy and capitalism?
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No, the solution to poverty
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Good democracy, yes (you might mean something else by strong democracy... not sure.) Capitalism by itself... no. Only as a part of the mix.
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Your free market capitalism can't exist without the global south to exploit
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Yes, it requires poor people who can watch lots of adverts, get all aspirational and believe that they, too, can one day be super rich. Mah!
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You two need to do a bit more research
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I've done plenty, Julia. It starts with an open mind. It proceeds with one, too.
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agree corruption in the Island Gov's is a massive problem, but wrong to sound so dismissive as you were of inequality.
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If you're all equally poor, you still suffer a lot. Inequality talks a distraction
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But they're not so some ppl are safe in well made houses and some are in danger in shanty houses. I'd have thought that obvious
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and the solution is not to make them all equally poor. No?
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Who's saying make ppl poor, don't add points, to make a point. What I'm saying is that poor ppl and their housing was an issue obviously
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if the place doesn't get richer and you lower inequality, then of course everybody becomes poor
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No, it's about setting a floor to society that nobody falls beneath, a minimum of safe housing, education and health.
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But if you do everyone wins, workforce is healthier, happier, more knowledgeable and contributes back, or you can keep the status quo.
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The point here is certainly not to give a flying fuck, is it?
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Yeah, that worked well for the poor of New Orleans during and after Katrina.
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Free market capitalism, does that exist anywhere?
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