[ExI] Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Stefano,
I give as an example the people in the lab where I work. People put an
enormous amount of hours but it is not about power at all. Some people put
the time and hours for power. These people should be not have power at all,
in fact the greed for power should be a way to select people that should
not have ever too much power. Power should be given to whom have a deep
desire to lead by example and to sacrifice themselves for others. And
people in power should relinquish it after a certain time.
Giovanni


2011/11/12 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>

> 2011/11/11 Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>
>
>> If you listen carefully the video "New Order-Wake up call" (that it is
>> too much leaning towards conspiracy theorism to be taken seriously in
>> its entirety) in it there is a gem:
>> "these people have so much money that they don't care about money
>> anymore, it is all about power".
>>
>
> This is a very important point.
>
> There is a limit to the number or quality of steaks money can allow you to
> eat, and the marginal utility function of money drops quite precipitously
> at, say, Soros's  level. What makes you still work, often much longer hours
> than your average Wal-Mart employee?
>
> The answer of course is power. Now, I may be more comfortable with the
> will to power than others. What I am not comfortable with is that power be
> allocated exclusively on the basis of your worth in dollars, to the
> detriment of whatever other features and selective criteria one can imagine.
>
> --
> Stefano Vaj
>
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