Hoarding money is an act of selfishness.
When you're heading to retirement it's called neccessity and/or paranoia. It's also called inflation and COLA adjustments are for crap, if you get any.
This is a very naive viewpoint
This is the main theory, other pros and cons go with it.
Libertarians and "anarchocapitalists" also assume we're individuals when we're not, as do many others on the left. We're members of families, communities, nations, religions, etc. We will act for others when we love others. This is one problem I have with the transient nature of modern societies: people move too quickly and communities change too quickly for attachments to be made and kept. I don't buy into the notion that many will come to love the world and all of humanity equally as a whole. We love particulars. That, to me, seems to be the essence of the left-right divide. Well that and that we're not equal individuals either but members of differing groups. I'm also open to a society of classes if there is mobility among them, though I don't understand classes well.
Nicely done, you just described why drug use and prostitution is not a victimless crime, as Libertarians would have you believe. To me that's naive.
Machiavelli stated that luxury leads to factions and self interest if I remember correctly. Pareto added that only the elite matters, it must remain strong and uncorrupted.
?? When was it ever not corrupt ??
The planet Earth can take all we can throw at it and then some
This is based on what scientific measurement? Have you ever seen how much energy and pollution is created from the manufacture of a single car and it's components? Not even addressing what the car creates afterwards. I have yet to see a scientist back up this conclusion with evidence. You are aware that air pollution is measured in tons, yes? Millions of tons.
people should not be allowed to have 7,8 or even 9 children;
When you live in Africa with a 90%+ mortality rate for your kids, disease, starvation, AIDS, etc, you need to have ten kids to have odds one will survive. I don't agree with that, but I do understand it.
There is no population problem.
Again, where is the scientific proof of that statement? From the vast reserves of resources we continue to have? Or should one ask how bad must it get before it becomes a problem? Is mainland China's government imagining things?
Russia leads the way in population decline in spite of economic decline at the same time.
Yes, but declining through fleeing and alcoholism.
Not to mention that once you have a considerable amount of money, you can "make money with money" and sit on your ass all day. Now just think: in the capitalist society, money is power, and these are the types of people that have it.... *
And that's why the rich get richer and the poor that never set anything aside stay really poor.
I don't know about you, but I don't like it when I see people living in the street eating my rubbish, I don't like it when I see desperately poor people turn to religious extremism, I don't like to hear that every day x people in africa die because they don't even have drinkable water and I don't like violence and crime.
A long quote just to say "yes, me too".
I believe that natural selection will take care (as in get rid of) of the human race, unless the human race learns to take care (as in look after) of itself.
Didn't modern medicine remove 98% of all natural selection?
capitalism is most certainly short sighted.
No, short term profits at the expense of long term profits do that. What I have called for years the Detroit Effect (GM & Ford).
But you say these people worked hard, and they are smarter than the poor folks.
Most likely better educated but certainly not smarter. Does Paris Hilton really strike anyone as smart? How about sober?
Anyway, I highly recommend pursuing accounting. It's not all that fun, but there are jobs atm. Nursing is also good; the health care growth in the US lately has been the economic growth (as well as the growth in government). The rest of the private sector has shrunken slightly.
Add to that list attorneys specializing in Internet Law, forensic accounting, and cybercrime specialists.
I think Jefferson recommended that only college educated men should be allowed to vote,
Why would I want the CEO of Enron or a lobbyist to vote?
Also professional athletes should get paid 30,000 a year, they are playing a friggin game for a living
Well besides the fact that the team and stadium owners make way too much it's addressed below:
What happens when they're forty-something, suddenly jobless, have no work experience outside of sports, and have no savings because you've seen fit to pay them thousands below the national average salary? This is assuming they don't get cut halfway through they're career, or disabled... What if they all of a sudden can't work?"
They can work, sports newscaster, books, coaches, really bad Olympic commentary. Endless Nike commercials. But from day 1 they can become cripples.
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 is good too, though it's on "secret hold."
So you're saying they put it in the undisclosed location?
I was expelling my rage on the ideology. I had just gotten back from the eye doctor (see myopia thread if interested but not worthwhile really) and was mad I couldn't drive due to the dilation (I decided that myself since I pulled out too far with my car).
It not only serves the transnational elite, but is also simply not loyal to America.
the American people just need to stand up and support leaders who serve their interests. The country has gone bad because those who should have stood up to become the nation's patriotic elite haven't. Also, the mass media has played a role in controlling the people, but the internet seems to have undermined their power considerably. Whether the internet will remain free I suppose is uncertain.