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- From: grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- Subject: Re: Here Are The Undeniable Truths of Life
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- References: <69483@cup.portal.com> <Bxtovu.7Ap@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov16.190611.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <grendel.722135201@camelot> <1992Nov19.165547.8760@ll.mit.edu>
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:31:04 GMT
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- In <1992Nov19.165547.8760@ll.mit.edu> lsa@ll.mit.edu (lisa s anderson) writes:
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- >In article <grendel.722135201@camelot>, grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
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- >|>>>>33. There will always be poor people.
- >|>>>
- >|>>> Unfortunately, true.
- >|>
- >|>Only in a society that is capitalistic (i.e., competitive, where there are
- >|>winners and losers).
- >|>
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- >Don't you get it yet. Basic human nature is to be competitive. Some people
- >are more competitive and ambitious than others. Granted some people start
- >out with the deck stacked in their favor. However, given two people who start
- >out with the same opportunities and resources, most often one will achieve
- >more success than the other.
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- Look, what we're dealing with in this society is polarization. It's gone way
- beyond competition. Wealth perpetuates wealth; poverty perpetuates poverty.
- How does this polarization stop? Only if those with wealth and power provide
- for those without. This is not being done because of some vague idea that it
- is "anti-capitalistic" and therefore sinful. Capitalism, though one of the
- more effective economic systems, is not the Gospel solution.
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