2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: A Man with A Hammer, Who Sees Nails Everywhere [View all]Festivito
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Which is not prostitution, rather it is the underlying desire to find moral justification for greed. (Which, BTW, leads to prostitution.)
We are all born into free stuff. Life itself. Baby food. Cleaning service.
Some are freely born into riches. Should we be resentful to the last penny? Some might think so. Most, I think, do not. But, should we be resentful if we are so downtrodden by the lucky few that our very lives, our liberty and happiness are each jeopardized? Some might think so. Most probably do think that would be bad.
That is where we are today.
So, the answer would not be socialism, but, rather democratic socialism. It's okay to be rich, but, no, not so rich that you destroy the lives, the liberties and happiness of others.
Finally, the moral justification by bamboozling voluminous word salad does not cut it for me. Cutting out some of the greed does.
EDIT TO ADD: To de-rig globally would be cheaper, but not required. As example, per capita health care costs. England, surrounded by waters had the cheapest per capita at just under $3000/year. Whereas Canada cost $3500/year and I would note that Canada has a long border with US that has many people who need free health care such as Sarah Palin breaking her arm and her family taking her into Canada, getting free treatment, and returning back to Alaska as a young person. A long but easy drive. England, OTOH, is harder to enter that way. So, England's health care can be cheaper.