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IN a Depression, the majority suffer. One would (or wouldn't) like to think everyone suffers. One would think that everyone suffers equally. But nothing, absolutely nothing, is done equally in this world. The development of civilizations has never favored equality, and it seemed only later, after the Revolutions, that the world equality>egality>egalite', began to sprout in certain places. They like to think the Greeks and the Romans lived a true democracy, where everyone was equal. Notice, however, that Ovid's amatory poems describe the mind of a man very much in touch with his carnal desires, such as today. I do not bring this without connection. It has always been this way: we have never all been focused on the same things. Money, or a form of survival, has always been a concern of humans, but the ways to acquire have never been the same. The distribution of ideas has never been the same. Some first knew how to produce and trade and sell and price and buy and invest and all these matters while others focused on the carnal or the spiritual. Some with great ideas, perhaps even ridiculous ideas, such as the pet rock, saw once the earnings of their mind.
I hate to think that no one who has much money deserves to have it taken away or stolen from them. On the contrary, I believe that one earns what one works for. There is a moment, however, when I believe the quantity of property possessed by a single man outnumbers the survival limit for several lives, nay, many many many lives. It transcends the idea that this money is being saved for the individual's children, for it could persist for several generations without seeing loss. I do not know precisely of who I speak with this amount of power, but I am sure as I breath that there that person exists.
Do the immensely rich suffer in time of Depression. Does their fortune ever approximate relative poverty? My question, in a time of depression, is WHERE IS THE MONEY? Has the world been conformed of so many people that the distribution of wealth has left all with a meager quantity? Nay, the development of society has never been equal...
In the 1930's, did the few merely enclose themselves in their castles while the majority perished? If the majority perished, would the few be happy? The few could perhaps hire enough to sustain a society of their own, but these lesser humans working for them, what benefit can they derive from the wealth? Who do they find to serve them, to cultivate the food for them while they cultivate the others' food?
I hate to think that no one who has much money deserves to have it taken away or stolen from them. On the contrary, I believe that one earns what one works for. There is a moment, however, when I believe the quantity of property possessed by a single man outnumbers the survival limit for several lives, nay, many many many lives. It transcends the idea that this money is being saved for the individual's children, for it could persist for several generations without seeing loss. I do not know precisely of who I speak with this amount of power, but I am sure as I breath that there that person exists.
Do the immensely rich suffer in time of Depression. Does their fortune ever approximate relative poverty? My question, in a time of depression, is WHERE IS THE MONEY? Has the world been conformed of so many people that the distribution of wealth has left all with a meager quantity? Nay, the development of society has never been equal...
In the 1930's, did the few merely enclose themselves in their castles while the majority perished? If the majority perished, would the few be happy? The few could perhaps hire enough to sustain a society of their own, but these lesser humans working for them, what benefit can they derive from the wealth? Who do they find to serve them, to cultivate the food for them while they cultivate the others' food?
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