Study finds wealthy Americans have different idea of what makes a just society

[fezzyfestoon]

Did you expect differently? I always wonder about zhivagos who support policies that result in the government literally stealing their things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion

Hahaha compassion is just a word poor people throw around because they don't understand the concept of profit! Fool...

[fezzyfestoon]

Did you expect differently? I always wonder about zhivagos who support policies that result in the government literally stealing their things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion

Hahaha compassion is just a word poor people throw around because they don't understand the concept of profit! Fool...

When emotion is allowed to overrule reason, everyone suffers.

Not everyone and not always, at least not as much or as often as when greed is allowed to overrule reason.

[fezzyfestoon]

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Extreme plutocracy denies the opportunity for profitable activity by those not already in the entrenched elite.

Don't I know know it, brother.

[fezzyfestoon]

Did you expect differently? I always wonder about zhivagos who support policies that result in the government literally stealing their things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion

Hahaha compassion is just a word poor people throw around because they don't understand the concept of profit! Fool...

When emotion is allowed to overrule reason, everyone suffers.

Not everyone and not always, at least not as much or as often as when greed is allowed to overrule reason.

A drive to make money -- to profit -- results in innovation and over the long run helps everybody; the producer, who makes money, and the consumer, who gets to have a better product.

Except there's no evidence of that happening anymore. And a desire for profit is not the same as an undying and unchallenged devotion to profit (as well as government subsidization and encouragement of that practice). When you reach that point the consumer loses quality and bargaining power as the company's market share grows. There are plenty of talking points that support greed nicely, none of which are rooted in reason.

[fezzyfestoon]

Except there's no evidence of that happening anymore. And a desire for profit is not the same as an undying and unchallenged devotion to profit. When you reach that point the consumer loses quality and bargaining power as the company's market share grows. There are plenty of talking points that support greed nicely, none of which are rooted in reason.

When a company's products decline in quality, the consumer starts to buy a competitor's products, and the profits are hurt because of the mistake. Competition is the goal of a free market system; I've always said that there should be laws prohibiting monopolies.

Yeah, that's all well and good in a free market, not a market where the companies that can curry the most favor among influential figures are allowed to corner markets, manipulate supplies, abuse market power, and get away with all of it by stacking federal programs of oversight. The executive branch needs to execute the law in order for the market to be free and fair. Markets operate on derivatives and market gambling that manipulates the market into bubbles that cause direct, drastic, and manufactured strain on the people forced into supporting it by a weak job market. A weak job market that rewards offshoring work and reducing business to a purely profit-based operation. They seek lower wages, settle for lesser quality, manufacture false demand, and purchase political support to do it. Competition is impossible when the law isn't applied properly.