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Nelson said and revealed he has no clue about class problems when he said:
And who exactly is this ruling class? Let me see... it can't be the founders of Yahoo! or Google, even though they are now worth billions. And they are worth billions because they live in a free capitalistic society. So who is this ruling class?
Nelson, don't you know that Steve Jobs the creator of Apple Computers and now the dude launching the "iPhone" phenomenon gives himself an annual salary of $1 a year? Why? Because according to Steve Jobs he is already richer than Midas and doesn't need the money. He because he owns intellectual property rights has made more than a lot of average workers some of it equivalent to the lifetime work and productivity of thousands of people. Do you really think a single human being has a right to control the equivalent of thousands of lifetimes of labor of other people? Even they know their 'wealth' is totally out of porportion to what they actually produce. HUMANS innovate. They always have. Not because capitalism and private intellectual property is the best thing since sliced bread happens. No. But because human beings who are creative LOVE IT AND LIVE FOR IT. Lol. And all of us benefit. What persecutes us is the keeping of enormous wealth in such small hands. Wealth in truth is meant to flow and to serve people and not have people serve enormous wealth. People and their needs should always be more important than a small tiny percentage of humanity controlling huge percentages of the available resources and wealth. It is a recipe for disaster. The more people are allowed to work and then pool their resources together for the benefit of EVERYBODY, the better the civilization gets. Steve Jobs doesn't need more of what he already has in overabundance, now he wants his 'workers' to get a lot more of it. Eventually if every billionaire decided to pool all their resources and share it with EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN NEED ON PLANET EARTH....you won't have too many crisis in the world. But as the ancient saying says....nothing corrupts as much as power. And it is the power that enormous wealth brings that is so hard to give up for individuals. It is not the money per se for many. It is the POWER that comes with it that is so difficult to conquer.
What is the base of the wealth of google and Steve Jobs? The consumer. Who are the consumers? Billionaires? Billionaires are very very tiny minority in the world. Try selling iphones to billionaires only. Will you make a profit? No. They sell it to the masses. Who are the masses? Millions of people with average and below average salaries. So again, the Jobs dudes are viable because they depend on the masses to spend on their product. The customer is always right---but what I am saying is that the average worker is always right. They are the reason why innovation exists and is used. Not the other way around. The masses have always been the ones creating the wealth. Not the individuals who are billionaires marketing their innovations to the masses. Wealth almost always without exception is group based. Mass based. It has to be. That is why in the USA out of 300 million people you might have one or two percent who are millionaires. If everyone were millionaires who would the millionaires have to live off of? It is a pyramid. And part of the reason why so many don't realize how to cope with reality is that they live with the fantasy that they too might be the one percent one day. So do all the lotto ticket buyers out there. That is part of the fantasy of Capitalism as well.
Do you think a single individual who might be worth BILLIONS of bucks really earned all that wealth? Are deserving of all that wealth? After all there are only twenty four hours in a day and at least 8 hours of it should be spent sleeping. So, how can one single mortal and fragile human being have the right to control BILLIONS of dollars and then another human being is allowed to die because some HMO thinks it is too costly to approve a needed surgery on him? How does that sound to you. It might be interesting but again you should see Jamie Johnson's documentary of "Born Rich" and "The One Percent"---Jamie Johnson himself is born rich and was the one from the Johnson and Johnson fortune. He talks to the rich and some of them admit they don't really think they have a right to the wealth in a human sense, but they like the freedom that comes from enormous wealth and feel they have to preserve their social and economic class power. But, deep inside some of them (the more intelligent btw) admit they really think it is a little absurd. If they know it is absurd, do you think I will take your idea of what enormous wealth signifies seriously? I think if you have never considered who rules this society and who is in charge of making laws and making power plays---then forget about it. You got to go and find out what it is all about. Adam Smith and then keep going all the way down the line.....study them all. Then say "There are no ruling classes at play here." The ruling classes certainly know who they are. LOL! Just ask Jamie Johnson.
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