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"... When four percent of the world's population controls more than 60% of the world's wealth [...] it is impossible for me to remain uncritical..."

You should dedicate yourself to improving your critical thinking.

The 'wealth' you cite is created by the same minority of people.

It's not as if an evil gang of capitalists is stealing resources from an previously-untapped African mine full of Microsoft Office XP CD-ROMs, is it? Are they conspiring with third-world dictators to rob his subjects of their natural deposits of k.d. lang albums?

What use has a Kenyan Masai tribesman for a $2.8 million Sun StorEdge 9980 System except to smash the magneto-optical storage discs inside it into tiny bits to fashion necklaces for his whole tribe?

It really is insulting to use an alarmist and thoroughly-unexamined economic non-sequitur in attempting to seed guilt on people that have nothing to feel guilty about in the first place.

Have you ever considered putting down the signs and sloganeering and getting your hands dirty doing the hard work to help the people that you claim to champion?

By the looks of it, you rarely get your fat ass off the couch except to wolf down another box of Dove bars -- yet another overpriced capitalist item that a Masai tribesman doesn't need.

Hi all. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I found myself compelled to register because of the sheer brilliance of this post. It is at once _exactly_ right on the money (no pun intended) and scathingly funny. Sadly our socialist friend is very likely unable to see the humor and is right this very moment urgently resisting the temptation to pull the race card for reasons she can't quite grasp. It is briliantly illustrative of the core, underlying, overwhelming flaws in liberal philosophy - the same flaws that leave me slack jawed and shaking my head the more they are brought to light.

This is exactly the part of FR that I love. Razor sharp witty insight. Good show!

Good comment indeed!! It would appear that your Sun StorEdge System could simultaneously create roughly 11 hologram Masai tribesmen to help ward off evil socialist spirits from the U. of Texas netherworld.

Indeed, good job!

Just for the record, I never thought I'd say that about Texas. You boys and gals want to take your state back?

Excellent illustration of the ZERO-SUM FALLACY (i.e., the erroneous belief that there is a finite PIE of wealth in the world, and that any possession of a greater SLICE of wealth by some can come only at the expense of others.)

So far there has been no response from commieprof. When you question these people's dogmas, they snap into insulted silence (or report you to the neighborhood kapo if they are in power).