30-09-2025, 02:35 PM
(30-09-2025, 01:05 PM)Praktica Wrote: I see the rightwing posters have sucessfully diverted this thread away from the main point - Chloe's ideas for the economy and society. It's the sort of vision that rightwingers are afraid of...no longer worshipping wealth and property.
On that subject, I'm presently reading Limitarianism, the case against extreme wealth, Ingrid Robeyns & came across this:
“In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth remained accumulated like this & the pitchforks didn't eventually come out.
You show me a highly unequal society & I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counter examples, none.
If it's not if, it's when.”
Nick Hanauer, The pitchforks are coming.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)