Posted on 05/09/2012 7:03:47 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
I.e.: economic justice = economic rape.
So true. When the rich prosper, they need all sorts of goods and services. Four years ago, I was working every day and making good money. We had a cleaning crew come in regularly and clean our house. Now work is slow, so the cleaning crew comes in every few months now. The lady who runs it is slow as well. I’ve noticed people mowing their yards who used to hire a lawn service, and more neighbors washing their cars. The rich are not bottomless pits. Most I know are frugal and make wise decisions. If they are overtaxed, they will shelter their income, or live on investments, paying the much lower capital gains rate.
...which gets derided as “trickle-down economics”, with lots of nasty analogies applied.
They just don’t realize that so much of what we enjoy DOES depend on others buying more/better than they need. If we cut all those “obscene luxuries” out of society, and work all down to basics, we’ll find most people have nothing to do and nothing to contribute. Factory farming can generate enough calories, and housing can be cheap & simple, produced by remarkably few laborers; beyond that, what would most do? hence why communism results in destroying most means of efficient production, and kills of large swaths of population: with so few idle, production of basics _must_ be made less efficient so more will have something to do, and those who still don’t have anything to do (since anything “luxurious” is banned for all practical purposes) must be terminated.
This vs. capitalism, where there is incentive to create value in the most unlikely places.
On a related note, I’ve long wanted to hire a live-in housekeeper. I’m not rich, but do have a spare room, spare food, and a little spare cash - enough to get someone a job, room & board, entry into prosperity while enhancing my own. Alas, the “economic justice” types have made it impossible with a proliferation of regulations & welfare.
Yup !
“Economic Justice” means, to me, that intelligence, hard work, risk-taking, and talent are rewarded in the marketplace. To liberals, “Economic Justice” means that everyone makes the same income, irrespective of the above characteristics.
but as society at large sees it
Because that implies a whole ton:
* Charity is not noble or worthy unless it can be done at a quantifiable level that passes muster at a societal level, vice an individual level.
* Society now has a vested interest in controlling all aspects of charity; charity should, in fact, be a duty of the state.
* With society the ultimate judge of charity, what is decided to be charity is left to democratic opinion, which can then be enforced with guns.
In sum, it ain't charity unless the government signs off on it, and guess what, you're going to be charitable or we're going to kill you.
In the twentieth century, there has been a growing influence of irrationalist philosophy, which denies the reliability and efficacy of human reason and which disregards the profound influence that the possession of reason exerts on every aspect of human life. According to such philosophy, there is little to distinguish man from the lower animals.
To the degree that they exist, freedom and the pursuit of material self-interest operating in a rational cultural environment, are the foundation of all the other institutions of capitalism.
Apparently it means that if you’ve managed to save any money, you need to give it to folks that spent theirs on piercings, tattoos, and weed.
True economic justice is the unshakeable observation that no one has any claim on wealth except the one who created it. If that person chooses to pay another for work, that is between those two alone
That’s justice and fairness.
When you look back into the development of the current ‘new world order’ of global socialism (actually pseudo socialism, it’s an oligarchy) Mandel House keeps coming up. League of Nations and elsewhere...
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