You might be missing the point there. I take it to mean social standing and wealth do not exempt you from the process.
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Some bitch the "rich" (-er than them) use money for meaningful ends (justice, school, health). The same bitch the "rich" use it for luxury.
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Envy is a mental disorder. Socialism is a mental disease.
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Replying to @fare
Is Socialism is a disease, what about inheritance of wealth and privilege? The economic optimum could lie inbetween these traditions.
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Replying to @spacebat
Compromise is good politics, but bad ethics, and therefore bad economics. http://j.mp/MiddleWay
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Replying to @fare
So many absolutes and at root this Randian freedom. But the freedom of the powerful to curtail that of the powerless can be unlimited.
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Politics and markets are both tools that can be used for good or ill. The powers you mentioned come from power itself, whatever the source.
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So... there is unalloyed virtue in plutocracy, and only vice and folly in the democratic regulation of power? That's kindof fundamentalist
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Who was the richest man in the Soviet Union? Stalin. He controlled all the vast wealth in Russia and its colonies. Yet "Plutocrat"? haha no.
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