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Originally posted by *ClownPimp*
Your taking a very oversimplified view of wealth. Think of wealth as resources. In this case there is a fixed amount of wealth to be divided up at any given time. Money is just a "token". It allows the purchase of resources -- limited resources. Economics is far more complicated than you seem to appreciate.
Wealth is often defined by economists as natural resources and people resources. I am defining wealth in terms of quality of life, possessions etc for the PURPOSE of simplifying it for people who do not understand and have not studied these things.
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Originally posted by *ClownPimp*
wealth is not create, it is acquired. Things are created. One can create things that acquire him/her wealth.
Again, if this were so we would have the same level of wealth that the first people who walked the earth had. With our population as it is it would be spread very thin. This is not the case. "Things" that raise quality of life, food/shelter/other necessities included, are what is to be included as resources. Therefore, wealth IS created. If everyone sat around doing nothing we would all die. Production is necessary to maintain and increase wealth.
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maybe not conquest but definitely by, to varying degrees, exploitation.
I can't tell you what a cop-out this statement is. I hear it often with no facts to back it up.
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Yes it "can". But as history as shown (and is showing now) that Rising upper class mostly coincides with a lowering lowerclass.
Did you even read the article I posted?
here, lets try again http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,65278,00.html
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[i]not really (for the most part). They despise how we use our success.[/B]
Oh really? Just how should we use it? Give it away? of course we should. Let's just decrease our resources so nobody will be increasing the world's quality of life. Producers are key.
The gun comment I'm not even going to touch cause I don't even care about gun control issues. Besides, you're just out to argue with everything I say anyway.