"Freedom" thread or something

I suppose for the truly uninformed this will be the case.

Anyway, I sadly agree that wealth these days is revered and adored and that the wealthy are not "makers" or "job creators". 

The poor are not moral examples just for being poor though. 

"It was for value received that your teachers worked day in and day out to instruct you."

Um, but what about the difference between teachers who just do their job and the ones who inspire you to learn?  Pl remember the latter don't have to do it at all and they do it out of passion.  It is dangerous to believe all our thoughts and actions are governed only by economic considerations, that all morals need only be derived by economics and that the things that don't concern with economics are redundant indefinables.  To argue it in these, er, Darwinian terms, our emotional intelligence is an evolutionary advantage.  It is what we derive strength from and further the human race with.  I am sorry but a lone, towering genius Ayn Rand living all by herself would be no match for the strength of a pride of lions and she would (would have) do well to be a little grateful to the hapless social pygmies who effectively insulate her from her very real physical limitations.  Far from ridiculing empathy, we should strive to embrace it in every walk of life.  Showing a little bit of understanding, which seems to be a rather difficult thing for some of these Rand fanboys, can go a long way in solving problems.

It's been floating around since the 30s!! Not revived until quite recently. Shame since it makes sense of everything we've been living through.

 

As well as Hyman Minsky, a pretty obscure economist who pretty much predicted to the letter our current crisis 50 years early.

These liberal economists who's work has been ignored by the mainstream. Old ideas that work for our future, but Democrat supporters need to find this work, and then pull their head out of their ass and demand real change.

 

" We don’t need no stinking taxes on the rich to increase incomes of the poor. Indeed, there is no accounting that allows you to use taxes to take income from the rich to give to the poor. (Despite what our rightwingers say, the IRS does not hold you up with a gun–it debits your bank account.)"

 

"I am skeptical that we’ll do much to reduce richness by raising taxes, anyway. In America, it doesn’t work. The rich just get loopholes through Congress to exempt themselves. You can bet that the top 20,000 income earners in America will each get their own personalized exemption to any progressive tax hike"

 

The guy is pretty liberal and does have a very strong hate of income inequality, which Im much less concerned with, bent but he makes some great points.