<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Or do we want to limit the amount of the wealth he produced that he can personally control? Who would we rather control some resources, someone who has shown they have the Midas touch turning a given quantity of resources into the gold of more resources or someone that has shown no such thing and seems to somehow always consume approximately as much as they produce? I would want rationally to see that person expert in increasing value/wealth to have as much of it to multiply as possible. And of course the private space program and the real viable electric car would not exist without some real wealth in the hands of a few with sufficient vision and skill. samantha</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I agree with all you said. But - what I don't like about the super rich is their avoidance of taxes, buying congressmen to put in loopholes that only affect the rich (see NYT Business section today about what Obama can do), hiding money overseas to avoid taxes, and so forth. Clearly they think that they are paying too much. They do pay the majority of taxes and I am grateful for that, and they do drive the economy with their intelligence and creativity. But they often act selfishly and think they deserve to be treated like kings and queens. And because they are rich they think they are right about everything.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I ask everyone on this list this question: given that you are far smarter than the average person or even the average college graduate, did you ever think that you could do a better job of running your town, state, or country? Of course you have. Why? Because you are great an engineering or economics or physics? You see - being among the elite pumps your ego -- it certainly has pumped mine, and I AM one of those who think this way, but I know that this is dangerous thinking and I am very ignorant of how to run anything outside of a classroom.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:21 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div><br></div></span><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I agree, we'll probably survive, the betting market only gives Trump a 23.5% chance of winning.</font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>### This is a bad long term sign for America. Voters seem to prefer a treasonous, incompetent, bitter, arrogant establishment felon to a brash, successful businessman.</div><div><br></div><div>Not good at all. </div></div>
</div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>