Re: Modern Marvels

Edward Dolan wrote:
> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:fugo9p$1b4$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Wilson wrote:
> [...]
>>>>>>> I know. I know.  Businesspersons contribute more to the overall 
>>>>>>> benefit of society by providing goods and services that people
want 
>>>>>>> and need at prices they can afford.  Like say food, shelter,
medical 
>>>>>>> services, and re***bent bikes (on topic ****tion of this post).
>>>>>> These thing could be provided without vast cor****ations that do 
>>>>>> nothing by buy and sell other cor****ation, investment banks, etc.
90% 
>>>>>> of the structure does not benefit society as a whole, but just a
small 
>>>>>> fragment. This is not the free market at work, but the opposite.
>>>>> I wasn't aware that 90% of the USA market structure was vast 
>>>>> cor****ations buying and selling pieces of cor****ate paper to each 
>>>>> other.  Where do they get the money that they use in these 
>>>>> transactions?
>>>> The money is skimmed off of the backs of labor that actually creates
the 
>>>> added value in goods and services.
>>> Sorry, but none of this sounds plausible to me.
>> So the people making hundreds of millions or billions in financial
markets 
>> and services are really personally providing a similar benefit to
society? 
>> Hardly sounds plausible to me.
> 
> Wilson is batting 100 and Mr. Sherman is batting 0 as usual. The old
Soviet 
> Union was anti-capitalist and it failed utterly. Apparently "people
making 
> hundreds of millions or billions in financial markets and services" are 
> doing something beneficial for society. But Mr. Sherman would prefer
that 
> government bureaucrats make these kind of decisions. He should have
lived in 
> the old Soviet Union where he could have enjoyed the "benefits" of that
kind 
> of society.
> 
> In the meantime[...]

In the meantime, the "capitalist" western society is leading human 
civilization into a collapse that the species (and many other innocent 
species) may not survive. A non-sustainable system is NOT successful.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful