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I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 5449481" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>I'm all for anti-greed. The problem with anti-poverty is that it either requires everyone to be productive enough not to be in poverty, or taking from some, who may not have earned all they have, and giving it to others who haven't earned anything. The <em>real</em> problem is that the poverty line is relative. You increase the standard of living, the poverty line increases with it. That's how politicians get elected, promising to fix an unfixable problem and blame it on the other guy for failing to fix it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 5449481, member: 63706"] I'm all for anti-greed. The problem with anti-poverty is that it either requires everyone to be productive enough not to be in poverty, or taking from some, who may not have earned all they have, and giving it to others who haven't earned anything. The [I]real[/I] problem is that the poverty line is relative. You increase the standard of living, the poverty line increases with it. That's how politicians get elected, promising to fix an unfixable problem and blame it on the other guy for failing to fix it. [/QUOTE]
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