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Punx

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27. So let me get this straight

Reply to Demeter (Reply #11)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 11:32 AM

Aug 2015

"Think about it: We could arrange for the members of a society to be economically equal by ensuring that the economic resources available to each member of the society put everyone equally below the poverty line."

This implies that we must have lots of poor, so that a "Deserving" few can have plenty. And any other arrangement will "Horror" leave us all in poverty.

Meanwhile they rig the system to their benefit and sit back and talk about how they have earned their station.

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