Re: What do workers compete for?

Albert wrote:

> Ah.  If only that were true of capitalists as well as workers.

There are capitalists and there are capitalists. It is the entrepreneurs 
who carry civilization on their backs, like Atlas. This are the 
innovators and the inventors. Folks like these should be well rewarded.

No doubt your version of a Capitalist is some asshole who clips coupons 
from bonds he bought we money he never earned. Yes, there are those. 
Perhaps if the world followed Carnegie's example that would not have 
happened. Carnegie who made a billion $$$$ when gold was $20 an ounce 
did not leave any money or very little money to his children. The bulk 
of it went into foundations and a system of free libraries he founded so 
that workingmen could read, learn and improve their situation.

I think when a rich man dies, his wealth should be burned up in a grand 
potlach. That way his children would not get and neither would the 
government. A person should be able to take it with him when he dies.

Bob Kolker

Bob Kolker