Uplifting

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 11:35 am by Matt Davies.
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4 Responses to “Uplifting”

Artisan33 October 1st, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Matt,

I love your “disappearing Paterson” cartoon.

But this one, I don’t know…..

There’s a dangerous fallacy going around, that wealth is evil.

If a logician (or a philosopher) followed that line of reasoning to its end point, it would leave only orphaned newborn infants, naked starving people, and the dying as the few good people on earth.

As soon as the newborn are given diapers & bedclothes, they have a bit of wealth.Naked starving folks who find a bread crumb, or an overcoat, likewise gain wealth. Those who die, watch everything they once possessed slip away as they expire into the total poverty of death. Even buddhist monks have their beliefs, their begging bowls, their prayer beads, and their sleeping mats.

A corporation has nothing that anyone wants, it cannot profit. The task of every corporation (or business), is to find some item that people desire to have, and provide it to them. This fulfilling of the public’s wants has another name: Wealth Creation. Wealth is what people crave to have. If everyone wanted tulip bulbs, then tulip bulbs would constitute wealth.

If you have food, clothes, a job, a house, a car, an Ipod, a watch or ring, you possess wealth. But how do you GET wealth? Unless you are on charity, you get wealth by working….often for a corporation or business. They provide wealth in 3 distinct ways. First, they craft the desired objects or services, second, they pay you your salary for helping by working, and thirdly, their profits get distributed to old people via pensions, 401K’s, and straight stock dividends.

Thus we see that corporations ( or businesses) are the arteries by which wealth flows throughout our society, to those disciplined enough to work, and to those informed and responsible enough to invest wisely. In this age of mega-charity, corporations or businesses even vector some wealth to those irresponsible or unlucky enough to not have a job.

Thus, in this present age, anyone who hates corporations or businesses, is actually hating the very food that feeds him, the very weaver who clothes him, and the very communications web that enables him to share thoughts higher than animals’ musings.

It seems very peculiar to me, to see people express hatred of what is,... of reality.

It implies they have some OTHER secret plan, that only they know about.

An alternate, unreal demi-world.

A delusion.

Or a lie, maybe.
Steve C. October 1st, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Artisan33:

There’s a distinction between those that have to work and those that don’t. The working class have wealth but they have to work to maintain it. The wealthy don’t have to work to maintain it, we hand them the money.

The old saying “In a kingdom of the blind a one eyed man is king.”

In a kingdom becoming poor the wealthy have it all.
MARINADOG October 2nd, 2009 at 6:10 am
HOW MANY TREES DOES YOUR RAG KILL EACH DAY BY PAPERS NO ONE BUYS??????

ACORN
Richard Tjoa October 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Sorry, technical nit-picking here: When measured up against the pole, those guys are about 5-6’ tall. However, their foot-to-hip distance is apparently 1’. (Either they’re on their knees, standing in a ditch, or the pole is on a pedestal…?)

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