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Originally Posted by RichC
I agree, neither side is all good or all bad.
But we do have to make judgments on an individual basis.
I was not trying to paint any group with a broad brush.
I was trying to understand how someone could believe that large corporations could be considered a liberal idea.
What is this "wealth creation" you seem to hold above the concept of compassion ?
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I appreciate the questions.
I wouldn't say massive corps are liberal. I'd say they're whores. They'll sleep with whoever pays them. Sometimes the left, sometimes the right, etc.
My perspective is that that seeing them as only right-wing misses what they are. They'd sell their mother for the right price.
Let's just talk about compassion for a moment. I love the idea but the implementation is tricky. I see bumper stickers saying, "no more war," or "war is not the answer."
Nice sentiment. I'll bet you the survivors at Auschewitz don't share that view. As I said earlier before Jorn got all apoplectic I'm sure the folks at Srebenica wished the Dutch military was more concerned about their military prowess instead of their social agenda.
I see this level of childish thinking all around.
So I suggest a question is how to optimize the level of compassion in the world.
In fact I think that is a fundamental difference between left/right thinking. The right wants to maximize the overall level of desirable qualities. The left does not like that because it causes increased stratification and disparity.
The lefts answer is to lower the overall level but decrease the gap between the highest and the lowest.
These aren't words I hurl to make a point. They are very real. For example, overall education levels were higher before the left 'improved' things. Another example, the fabric of black society was much better before Johnson's great society. The list is quite long.
Wealth creation is simple. Where does your paycheck come from? The government does not create wealth. It takes it from me and you. When I look at a beach and see that sand can become silicon chips and I create Intel I have created wealth. Now 10,000 people can feed their families because I created wealth.
Progressives do not understand wealth creation. They live in a fantasy land. But their world is academia, civil service, unions, trial-lawyers and the government. None of those areas create wealth, they take it.
There is true money, wealth (not the bogus stuff the fed prints whenever it wants) that exists today only because I was alive. If I was not born, unless someone else had my vision, it would not exist.
By creating wealth one enables families to eat, have a home and build for a future.
The socks from Bangladesh that you think are terrible may be the best thing that happened to the people who make them. You look at their conditions and say, "how terrible." They reply, it's the best thing that has happened to us in our lifetimes.
Life is much more complex than the simple scenarios the profs paint at the blackboard. But then almost everyone of them couldn't hack it in the 'real world' so they have withdrawn to the fantasy land of academia and then tell others how things ought to be. I suppose that is a necessary evil but I don't want their dysfunctionalism to pollute the next generation.
Thanks for the reply.