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To use an argument that has a chance to convince even you (i. e. to appeal to naked greed, opportunism, and selfishness): If you were to actually get your wish
by shaki-dora 8y ago
To use an argument that has a chance to convince even you (i. e. to appeal to naked greed, opportunism, and selfishness):
If you were to actually get your wish, you would arrive at a pretty accurate remake of Europe around the 18th or 19th century[0]. Only with money being passed down from generation to generation, not land of title of nobility.
Many of those who didn't quite appreciate the genius and efficiency of this God-given system left Europe in those times to seek their luck in...America!
That wouldn't quite work today, what with no more continents available for settlers, not even those willing to ignore a few existing people already living there.
Which brings us to the second great idea some European at that time had, the guillotine...
0: Not saying that national parks alone would do this. There are actually far more resources that people like you thankfully don't even recognize as escapees from capitalism, to varying degrees. Among those are police protection, basic education, the right to use even crowded sidewalks, clean air and water, etc.
- delian66 8y agoWell, reality seems to disagree with your bleak hypothesis about possession of money becoming strongly correlated with heredity/nobility: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-to-riches-to-rags.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-... https://taxfoundation.org/income-mobility-and-persistence-millionaires-1999-2007 https://taxfoundation.org/income-mobility-and-persistence-mi... Just a reminder - you are talking about access to a freaking park, and not to a gold mine.