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Well, they really are hoarding as much money as possible, rewriting as many laws as they can to help themselves do it. And with rich people like Peter Thiel ma
by FranzFerdiNaN 9y ago
Well, they really are hoarding as much money as possible, rewriting as many laws as they can to help themselves do it. And with rich people like Peter Thiel making comments about wanting to use blood from young people the eating babies part is getting closer.
- ekianjo 9y agoBlood is a renewable resource so I see no problem in making it a market product, with the proper regulation in place of course. As for hoarding money you are misunderstanding how things work. Money hoarded are usually reinvested somewhere else and does not sleep in a vault or something. Even your bank is constantly investing the money you save on the market. Thats how you can finance companies and startups in the end.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThe rich are keeping that money in their own circles, thus only funding the things they themselves care about. They are big time tax dodgers, because they don't want to accidentally fund something that benefits the poor.
- ekianjo 9y ago> they don't want to accidentally fund something that benefits the poor. Welfare policies have been shown at multiple times to actually harm the poor in the long run, not benefit them. There are entire books written on that topic. Check out Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 from Charles Murray.
- kiliantics 9y agoFuck Charles Murray
- KozmoNau7 9y agoBecause poor people have it so much worse in the Nordic countries compared to the US, right? There are also entire books written about Bigfoot and the flat Earth theory.
- paulryanrogers 9y agoIs it really consciously avoiding benefiting the poor or just that they think they know better? Gates and Zuckerberg have both given large amounts intending to benefit the poor.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThey are definitely outliers. There have been tests done which show an inverse correlation between the cost of a person's car and how likely they are to stop for pedestrians waiting at marked crossings. Just as an informal example. It is also extremely telling that the people who litter the most are young and rich. Rich people overwhelmingly care a lot less about people they consider to be beneath them.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoIt's a product that's there's already a large, regulated market for, in fact (as blood plasma specifically). It wouldn't much extra effort to only buy it from young desperate people...