Adam Back wrote:

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Steve Boursy writes:

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That's a fair question. I don't begrude one's ownership of their fair share--but I do have serious problems with what we shall call 'accumulators' if you will. For them I have contempt and no-- they do not have that right of possession and often such 'work' is at the expense and on the backs of others.

I'm an accululator :-)

The investments I have I worked for.

Well of course you have--but the majority of people in the world that are poor have worked just as hard and do not derive the same benefits--that needs to be changed.

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See, if you spend your money now, on the above, you have no right to criticize me when I look relatively wealthy later. It's your choice to blow your money.

I agree--that's not what I was talking about--the majority of wealth is handed down not earned--and the ability to earn also more often than not results in hand me down priv.

I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who was successful at getting the practice of primo geniture outlawed in Virginia (it was later adopted by all the other states). He believed in a 'meritocracy' or sorts and abhored any practice which would create a merchant or political aristocracy in the new Republic. Unfortunately much of his wisdom was ignored (e.g. objection to a central bank, and the forbidding of one generation to indebt another) and we suffer the consequences to this day.

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Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it very difficult for me to accumulate,

We do our best--some day we'll take it all away--really.

Steve