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Originally posted by jjl
I must have missed that bit in the Bible about greed being a virtue. Or the Koran, or the..
No-one on this earth is 'worth' 500 times another. Having an economic system that encourages this is wrong. The 'working hard' justification makes me smile - I work hard, but so what, I get paid a reasonable amount. Defending it on the grounds that it leads to 'progress' is bizarre. There is no evidence for this - there is a sample size of 1 (history of capitalism). No doubt the same arguments were made for the ancient slave economies. I hope in the future our current system is viewed with the same mixture of horror and incomprehension.
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If we put a dollar value on human life than of course, some humans are worth more than others. If for no other reason than composting--Rush Limbaugh would result in more composted value than Paris Hilton. And so on.
But is human value determined only by money? I don't think so. It's a useful metric but not the only one.
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