2012-07-25, 01:03 PM
Flonne Wrote:What does that have to do with anything...? If you are going to go that route, there will NEVER, EVER be a shortage of expendable bodies. Even if ten people took all of the world's wealth and somehow took the concept of trade/barter, everyone would still not die. Hundreds of thousands of people would still be drifting the planet aimlessly a decade later. If each of those 10 people had 5 capable slaves, they would still easily be able to live a life of luxury for the remainder of their lives. Trying to "topple the pyramid by removing the bottom" will not work when they own the entire pyramid, all of the people that made it, all of the resources used in the process of making said pyramid, and all of the land that the pyramids are located on.
Ok, I'll break it down further.
The rich depend on the poor's existence - without the slaves, the pyramids wouldn't exist. One rich person, expending personal effort, cannot build a pyramid. So to claim that the rich person is, all on their own, the only one who built the pyramid - it's delusional. They may be the reason it exists, but their personal effort isn't sufficient to create it. They need quarriers, labourers, farmers, etc. - a whole ecosystem funneling into the production of pyramids.
Quote:I don't care if I made 200K a year or 200M a day, if I don't feel like giving it away, it belongs to me.In the same way, that money is only yours in the sense you've got your name on it. Much like the pyramid, it only exists because of countless slaves. Now, in a fair, or possibly ideal world, the rich person would acknowledge this, and compensate the workers fairly. But, now that they've got their pyramid of money - they decide to defect on their social contracts, and withdraw from supporting the workers, much like you have. You know how easy it is. The government exists to prevent this defection - to ensure that workers continue to be compensated fairly their entire lives, and that the next generation has an adequate supply of healthy workers.