Re: What do workers compete for?

Robert J. Kolker wrote:

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

Pioneers get arrows in their backs. It's the scope expanding humans
who make the bucks.

Making bullets is honorable. Firing them is less so. But spotting
where to fire wins wars.

> 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. 

That's not capitalism. It's pyramidism. It's buildig the
tomb first, then dying to get in.

> 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.
> 

Canegie was a Scotsman, in a time when that meant a very specific
thing with  resepect to the development of the Enlightenment.

> 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.
> 

If there is a you after, it won't matter.

If there is not a you, it won't matter.

But keeping others from it will be trouble. As will
not keeping them from it.

> 
> Bob Kolker

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Les Cargill