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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Nobody said life would be fair-get used to it.
Come the revolution the rich will loose their heads and some of the poor will get very rich. The whole cycle will start again.
In the history of the human race there have always been the very rich and the very poor, whatever the system. Unless you can name one I've missed?
As for co-operative models being the only ones which will work-I would have thought the USSR had proved that to be wrong quite conclusively. The Chinese have certainly accepted that now.
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Your digital view of history is becoming pixelated. And quite silly. Especially looking at the example of the Soviet Union and concluding it proves anything ... other than that a co-operative effort will defeat the Wehrmacht, put a man in space, and build lousy automobiles
Since Adam delved and Eve span, humanity has been in a constant state of revolution. (Nice to add a touch of Shakespeare to an argument conducted in English
) Not cyclical at all, just constant evolutionary change. You know, random mutation, selective retention applied to society. If you believe that revolutions are somehow created in smokey rooms or attics by bearded wannabe intellectuals who make the kind of bombs that coyote's throw at road runners, then you are missing the point. In fact, most revolutions are inevitable. There is, for example, no technological revolution. Once you have the first computer ... maybe we should thank the nazis for providing us with the challenge of Enigma
... the technological "miracles" of today are boringly inevitable. It took thousands of years to get off the ground in a heavier than air machine. Yet the "distance" from Kitty Hawk to Tranquility Base is, what, 66 years. And "revolutions", all major changes, feed off one another. No random mutation of wheat in the Fertile Crescent = equals no ancient Egypt. Altho' something else might have happened to give rise to civilization, which may or may not have been a good idea. Like it or not, the revolution is taking place right now. Altho', how it will pan out is anybody's guess.