1/23/22

Concentrating wealth subverts free enterprise

 Society has become so obsessed with money and material things that good sense about mankind being better off if people work for the social good as well as themselves is being lost. If  the masses can’t see the wood for the trees and political leaders aren’t able to comprehend what can make a nation better off in pursuit of their own, existential position, civilization can decline.

There are two basic forms of government for humanity these days; those that seek to concentrate wealth in a tiny minority and make slave laborers and happy work minions of everyone else, and those that prefer free enterprise and democracy with limits to capital acquisition. Plutocracy threatens the integrity of elections and enterprise with monopoly. 

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