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rmnunez · Oct 9, 2005, 12:55 am

Oranged sounds a bit more red than orange to me.

There are numerous and well-founded reasons the world proletarian revolution with socialist wealth redistribution is unlikely ever to come to pass. People are inherently competitive, this is a cross-cultural feature easily verified observing small kids with toys in kindergartens and day cares around the world, they don't naturally share. Ingenuity is rewarded or not exercised, necessity the mother of invention. With an apportioned entitlement to whatever fraction of wealth the distributing authority assigns, each of us would become just a parasite awaiting our respective disbursement. If the government provides the housing, we have no need to pay mortgages or rents. With free passes on mass transit (if it were otherwise adequate) we wouldn't need fancy cars to get around town. With guaranteed employment (or at least its salary), full benefits and assured retirement all needs are covered. Can we underwrite this for the world's billions with Bill Gates'?

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rmnunez Volcanic Erupter Location: Mexico City Posts: 4,772	Oranged sounds a bit more red than orange to me. There are numerous and well-founded reasons the world proletarian revolution with socialist wealth redistribution is unlikely ever to come to pass. People are inherently competitive, this is a cross-cultural feature easily verified observing small kids with toys in kindergartens and day cares around the world, they don't naturally share. Ingenuity is rewarded or not exercised, necessity the mother of invention. With an apportioned entitlement to whatever fraction of wealth the distributing authority assigns, each of us would become just a parasite awaiting our respective disbursement. If the government provides the housing, we have no need to pay mortgages or rents. With free passes on mass transit (if it were otherwise adequate) we wouldn't need fancy cars to get around town. With guaranteed employment (or at least its salary), full benefits and assured retirement all needs are covered. Can we underwrite this for the world's billions with Bill Gates'? Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum. Raúl M. Núñez Sheriff Last edited by rmnunez; Oct 9, 2005 at 01:15 am.