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rmcrobertson
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Actually, no, no lesson in basic economics is needed. I read a bit of Ricardo, Adam Smith (the first one) and above all Marx and "The Wall Street Journal:" they understand how it works.
Since you've chosen to be condescending, let me ask: do you? Have you read any of this stuff? Watched, "The Nightly Business Report?" Listened to, say, Sir James Goldsmith explain how money and markets work?
Do you understand that fundamentally, capitalism as a system has no involvement whatsoever in individual lives or indeed in morality in any form? Do you get that in capitalism, the ebb and flow of capital comes first, and any effect on individuals/moral choice is epiphenomenal, a side effect/one of the sequelae of the production, accumulation, and exchange of wealth in all its forms? Do you understand that our dominant method of determining who gets what and to what extent is generally held to match a Darwininst competitiveness, "nature red in tooth and claw," which (or so one would think) must raise an issue or two for fundamentalist Christians who embrace capital and reject evolution?
Call me wacky, bleeding-heart liberal, old-fashioned (that's the most recent ideology: if you object to the idea that money is the be-all and end-all of existence, you've objected to the march of progress)--I think people are more important than what H.L. Mencken called, "the Almighty Dollar."
Oooh. My bad. Of course, in martial arts there's no reason to think that capital has IN ANY WAY affected the heart of the art. Certainly not in kenpo. Why, if that were true, these forums would be full of people kvetching about teaching kids for money alone. There'd be all sorts of comment on how test fees climb...on how people study the way they study othe yuppie fads...good thing that hasn't happened.
Since you've chosen to be condescending, let me ask: do you? Have you read any of this stuff? Watched, "The Nightly Business Report?" Listened to, say, Sir James Goldsmith explain how money and markets work?
Do you understand that fundamentally, capitalism as a system has no involvement whatsoever in individual lives or indeed in morality in any form? Do you get that in capitalism, the ebb and flow of capital comes first, and any effect on individuals/moral choice is epiphenomenal, a side effect/one of the sequelae of the production, accumulation, and exchange of wealth in all its forms? Do you understand that our dominant method of determining who gets what and to what extent is generally held to match a Darwininst competitiveness, "nature red in tooth and claw," which (or so one would think) must raise an issue or two for fundamentalist Christians who embrace capital and reject evolution?
Call me wacky, bleeding-heart liberal, old-fashioned (that's the most recent ideology: if you object to the idea that money is the be-all and end-all of existence, you've objected to the march of progress)--I think people are more important than what H.L. Mencken called, "the Almighty Dollar."
Oooh. My bad. Of course, in martial arts there's no reason to think that capital has IN ANY WAY affected the heart of the art. Certainly not in kenpo. Why, if that were true, these forums would be full of people kvetching about teaching kids for money alone. There'd be all sorts of comment on how test fees climb...on how people study the way they study othe yuppie fads...good thing that hasn't happened.
