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I don't like bringing politics to HN but I do want to counter your anti-OWS rhetoric. Equating the opposition of the maldistribution of wealth to "some evil ove
by omd 14y ago
I don't like bringing politics to HN but I do want to counter your anti-OWS rhetoric. Equating the opposition of the maldistribution of wealth to "some evil overlord" is just being fatuous.
The shortage of resources that comes from overpopulation is a problem which needs to be solved in the long term. However it wouldn't be a problem just yet if it weren't for a handful of people hording the majority of the world's wealth. The problem at the moment isn't a lack of resources, but rising prices due to a shortage of resources. If income for middle and lower class families hadn't been stagnant for the past decades then those rising prices wouldn't have been a problem. That's what people are protesting. It's not a class warfare, it's not a hatred towards people who are well off (like myself). It's about needless suffering.
- crpatino 14y agoI think this discussion has gone way off the main topic. OWS seems to be much more emotionally loaded than I had realized and I apologize for bringing this subject to the table. My point was simply that we have both more responsibility and more capacity for action than is evident at first sight. I better leave it at that.