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by ansugisalas

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shall inherit the Earth.
Meaning: The meek shall be left with the slag-heap.

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by ansugisalas

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But just think, for all these centuries, the meek have dreamt of the future jackpot.
And only now does it appear, maybe it's really a punishment.

by hal 9000

I was told that the Meat Shall Inherent the Earth.

Meaning that what we now eat as food will be all that's left after we have finished trashing the place. ;)

Col

by tonythetiger

is to learn to take advantage of human nature, rather than expending resources in the futile attempt to change it.

by hal 9000

So the result is instead of ending up with the Best of the Best we end up with the Lowest of the Low in a Race to the Bottom.

Seems to me that Free Enterprise with it's current Fixation on the Bottom Line is the main thing to blame for this and the real reason why we are in such a mess.

Col

by ansugisalas

pit the money-grabbing bastiches against each other, and enact social justice while they're not looking?

by tonythetiger

In capitalism, we enact social justice by buying from someone else. The threat of losing customers is the self-imposed throttle on greed. The ONLY government involvement in this process should be to prevent price fixing, collusion, and other anti-competitive practices... It certainly should not be involved in helping one company in favor of another by offering tax breaks to one over another. We want businesses competing on the value of their products or services... not which one can better schmooze up to the politicians!

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