[nature of reality]

I accidentally posted early. This is the second half

The Benefit reaped by the poor from the rich cannot be understated. I doubt i can't explain it better than this so here goes. I highly suggest you read the entire book:

The machine, the frozen form of a living intelligence, is the power that expands the potential of your life by raising the productivity of your time... every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but its only teh degree to which he thinks that determines the degree to which he'll rise. Physical labor as such can extend no further than the range of the momment. the man who does no more than physical labor, consumes the material value-equivalent of his own contribution to the process of production, and leaves no further value, neither for himself nor others. But the man who produces an idea in a ny field of rational endeavor--- the man who discoevers new knowledge-- is teh permanent benefactor of humanity... It is only the value of an idea tha can be shared with unlimited numbers of men, making all shareers richer at no one's sacrifice or loss, raising the productive capacity of whateve labor they perform.

in proportion to the mental enrgy he spent, the man who creates a new invention recieves but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what forutne he makes no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in a the factory producing that invention, recieves an enormous paymetn in proportion to the mental effor his job require of HIM. And the same is true of all between, on all levels of ambition and ability. The man at the top fo theintellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below hm, but gets nothing except his material payment, recieving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receieves the bonus of all their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition" between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of "exploitation" for which you have damned the strong. (atlas shrugged).



And their is your fault. You see material wealth as something you have to club someone for, not something that can be created.

"Their education is largely based on their birthright, which becomes a self-serving prophecy as entry into a higher class is unattainable because it is unaffordable"


The period of which there was the most class fluidity was also the time of the most laissez faire economics (early 19th america)


"People work under Socialism because they are paid, based their educational level, to do so"


And because if they don't, the government can use the moral blank check of Alturism to point a gun at them.


"Their wages are based on the 'accepted living standard,"


The minimal to survive and still produce. How you treat farm animals.



"Their education is largely based on their ability, as it is free and universal,"


LOL! How can education be discriminating (ie largely based on their ability) and still be universal?

"and through social welfare class distinctions are blurred"

The ignorant thought that you can steal the wealth of the rich and give to the poor and that will make them more productive memberrs of society is reminsicent of savages eating the bodies of their superiors to gain their strength. It works about as well too.


"The 'people' are as free as they ever were and more."

Free to be robbed by a beggar known as Common Good. Free to have no property rights. Free to die in the interest of the State.