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  • Originally posted by jordanriver View Post
    my suspicion, (my thoughts on the subject, I could be wrong)


    resources (represented by money) is like oil and water,

    you can try to evenly distribute it, but it all separates (organizes)

    Eventually the bulk of the control of resources falls into the hands of a few winners.

    until there is a revolution and the winners are disposed of and you're good for a few decades.

    Till new winners among the loser population rise and the oil and water are separated again.

    And you have to start all over again.


    ....God solved this problem in OT times with jubilee, but most of the world does not accept this and modern winners will never cooperate voluntarily.
    If you write up this incoherent unintelligible fantasy of yours, you possibly could

    1) obtain a high-paid professorship at Berkeley or an Ivy League university (of course you'd do it gratus except room and board.)

    And/or

    2) be awarded a Nobel in Peace Studies or Economics.

    Really...

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    • Originally posted by klaus54 View Post
      If you write up this incoherent unintelligible fantasy of yours, you possibly could

      1) obtain a high-paid professorship at Berkeley or an Ivy League university (of course you'd do it gratus except room and board.)

      And/or

      2) be awarded a Nobel in Peace Studies or Economics.

      Really...
      The Life of Reason)

      .....nice list of things that happen in world history

      ......even monkees do it
      To say that crony capitalism is not true/free market capitalism, is like saying a grand slam is not true baseball, or like saying scoring a touchdown is not true American football ...Stefan Mykhaylo D

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      • Originally posted by jordanriver View Post
        The Life of Reason)

        .....nice list of things that happen in world history

        ......even monkees do it
        Not ignoring anything...

        Are you?






        Work on that Nobel-winning paper during that hour of free time at the institution.

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        • I'd probably rank them something like this.

          Current and future:
          1. Poverty
          2. Corruption/bad government
          3. Warfare
          4. Terrorism

          Future (potential):
          1. Resource depletion
          2. Pandemic
          3. World war
          4. Severe climate change
          5. Genocide
          6. Financial crisis
          7. Overpopulation
          Find my speling strange? I'm trying this out: Simplified Speling. Feel free to join me.

          "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."-Jeremy Bentham

          "We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question."-Orson Scott Card

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