On 1/3/2011 10:49 AM, Warp wrote:
> andrel<byt### [at] gmailcom>  wrote:
>> On 2-1-2011 23:12, Warp wrote:
>>> andrel<byt### [at] gmailcom>   wrote:
>>>> Wait a minute, are you really claiming that the white race is superior here?
>>>
>>>     Are you seriously expecting me not to get offended by such a comment?
>
>> Why on earth would I want to offend you? What would I gain by that?
>
>    Not all offence is intentional.
>
>    I don't understand where the racial thing suddenly came up. I wasn't even
> thinking about races when I wrote that. I was thinking about (idealistic)
> socialism vs. capitalism, and the idea that it's somehow unfair that there
> vast differences in social classes and wealth distribution.
>
>> Now suddenly you claim that
>> the elite (people born from well off parents) should be in charge.
>
>    You should read what I was responding to. Also, I didn't say that.
> I said that more *talented* people should be awarded and allowed to
> succeed, rather than forcing them down to the same line as everybody
> else, no matter how "unfair" the idea of some people succeeding (eg.
> by getting richer) might seem.
>
This I would *almost* agree with. The problem is.. How did someone once 
put it, I think it was, "In the village of idiots, the elite is thrown 
out and ostracized for being *too* different, while in the village of 
geniuses, its the idiot who gets treated poorly." The law, and society, 
attempts, perhaps stupidly, to fix *both* problems at the same time, but 
the only way to do that is making everyone stand in the same line. If 
you let those that god rich stand in one line, and everyone else stand 
in the other, what you end up with *instead* is not the elite, best and 
brightest in the rich line. What you get is one town of Harvard grads, 
who got rich by *being* elite, next to another town full of village 
idiots, who get there by inheriting the money, but not the smarts that 
made it, *or* by catering to the lowest common level of stupid.

Just look at all the idiots that buy rubber bands with holograms and/or 
magnets in them, and deny that they work via pure placebo effects. Any 
idiot can make the things, it doesn't take a lot of brains to sell one, 
or to make up claims about what they do, or hire someone to make a logo 
to stamp on it, and any idiot willing to believe in them will buy the 
damn things, sometimes are $60+ a piece, of they are one of those 
"elite" athletes, with more muscle than brains. The scam artists made 
millions off these, and every time they become unsellable, they merely 
make up new shit, clue some new bits on one, name it something else, and 
sell millions more, often to the same fools. Any attempt to claim these 
people are "elite" just because they run good cons, the law doesn't 
cover them properly, so can't stop it, etc., is a complete joke. They 
have money, and talk about shit convincingly, that is the sole sum of 
their "skill". Otherwise, they are no different than the people that 
once sold patent medicines, because you could make more money going town 
to town selling stuff you threw together in a bottle than you could 
working at the local foundry. The guy working at that foundry, on the 
other hand, may **actually** turn out to be the one that figured out how 
to get aluminum out of a rock, which is both more useful *and* requires 
actual knowledge.

Not everyone that has, or makes, money is producing stuff that is "high 
quality", or even useful in the long term. Most of them are not, and 
most are in it *solely* to make money, not to understand anything, or 
learn anything, or improve anything, etc. Some even disparage people 
that do want any of those things (they tend to own the local "big" 
store, in the next town over, where all the village idiots live...)

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