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Taking the wealth produced by the hardest working people in poor countries and redistributing it to lazy rich people sounds exactly like the current state of gl
by ewzimm 11y ago
Taking the wealth produced by the hardest working people in poor countries and redistributing it to lazy rich people sounds exactly like the current state of global capitalism.
- sklogic 11y agoI do not care about capitalists. They somehow manage to exclude themselves from this unfair redistribution anyway, so the most of the tax burden is on the hard working middle class. As for the people in the poor countries, they're getting richer because of this process, to an extent that the capitalists have to move their cheap labour manufacturing further and further - just see the trends in textile, for example. So it's all levelling, I would not worry about this particular aspect.
- ewzimm 11y agoThere's definitely progress being made, but I'm sure we could do better. Soviet-style central control of wealth distribution is at an all-time high with banks and corporations colluding in place of a political dictatorship. I'm looking forward to new types of software-enabled currency and exchange that aren't so easy to manipulate by just a few people.
- sklogic 11y ago> but I'm sure we could do better It will happen over time. Levelling is an unavoidable consequence of the globalisation. > new types of software-enabled currency and exchange Yes, this can be quite a game changer, may even remove the banks from the picture entirely, but, again, it all will need time.