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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> <grendel.722041805@camelot> <1992Nov19.164245.8309@ll.mit.edu> <grendel.722201062@camelot> <nate.837@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:56:27 GMT
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- In <nate.837@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
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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]
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- >>>... Sarcasm aside, I find it hard to believe that anyone could be
- >>>naive enough to really believe the statement that you made.
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- >>Believe it, babe. I never claimed the communistic system of government works.
- >>All I said was that capitalism creates poverty.
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- > 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
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- No. Capitalism creates both poverty and wealth. Communism creates neither
- in theory, but in practice it results in a polarization even faster than
- capitalism.
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