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> People much wiser than us founded America upon the principle that extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy. You need to go back and take a look at early
by ary 13y ago
> People much wiser than us founded America upon the principle that extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy.
You need to go back and take a look at early American history. Many of the founding fathers were business owners and/or extremely land wealthy and had a strong interest in personal property rights as a result. They needed the middle class of the day to agree to the ratification of the constitution which led to the bill of rights.
Basically they founded America on the principle that their extreme wealth was incompatible with the rest of the colonials without democracy.
- Shinkei 13y agoSo you are saying they did it selfishly or to protect themselves? That's a pretty audacious claim considering many of the actions of these leaders. Where is the evidence that they had some ulterior motive all along?
- ary 13y agoI am not the first person to make this "audacious" claim. Feel free to assimilate multiple sources into your understanding of history, but I find much of Howard Zinn's writing to be enlightening. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinntyr4.html http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinntyr4.html
- Shinkei 13y agoThanks for the link. I don't entirely agree with much of the chapter. I mean, I think there is a lot of cherry picking of evidence to support his theory. For example, I've always heard that one of the reasons people came to the Americas (among some other reasons) was the wealth inequity issue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/interviews/warren.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/intervi...