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smaulgld
2013 Sep 2, 12:46am
Many of you seem strikingly ignorant that your lightly-regulated capitalist utopia has already been tried, and it was miserable for the working person. Read a little history on the USA in the late-19th century and see if that is really what you want to return to.
the average person through history has got a bad deal with low average life expectancy, starvation, poverty etc.
The commercial advances of the late 19th century, however brought more material wealth and well being to larger numbers of people than ever in history.
The average 'poor" person may be obese -meaning food is plentiful, watch tv, drive a car, use electricity and the internet and travel hundreds if not thousands of miles from his home.
In the 17th 18th and 19th century no one did that.
In the early 20th century few but the extreme wealthy traveled or had running water or electricity.
The advances of commerce have made it possible for more people to enjoy more wealth and well being than ever before-its not because of government regulation that we have achieved this.
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Rich people admire other successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people, the so called evil 1%'rs. If you view wealthy people as bad in any way, you can never be wealthy. How can you be something you don't like?
In other words, if you don't like rich people, don't be one.