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- From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
- Subject: Re: Here Are The Undeniable Truths of Life
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:18:32 GMT
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- grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
- >lsa@ll.mit.edu (lisa s anderson) writes:
- >>grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
- >>|>>33. There will always be poor people.
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- >>|>Only as long as there is capitalism.
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- >>This is so ludicrous it's laughable. Do you mean to suggest that if we
- >>eliminated capitalism, we would eliminate poor people? ...
- [snip]
- >>... Sarcasm aside, I find it hard to believe that anyone could be
- >>naive enough to really believe the statement that you made.
-
- >Believe it, babe. I never claimed the communistic system of government works.
- >All I said was that capitalism creates poverty.
-
- Ok, if capitalism creates poverty then what creates wealth? Do you
- think that people are better served by communism? There's a joke that I
- heard on NPR a few years back; I think it was in one of Daniel Shore's
- commentaries.
-
- Q: What is the difference between capitalism and communism?
-
- A: In capitalism, man exploits man. (very bad)
- In communism, it's the other way around.
-
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