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The global elite is insane : Comments

By Robert Burrowes, published 6/2/2014

Second, we must noncooperate, in a strategic manner, with elite-controlled structures and processes while simultaneously creating alternative, local structures.

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What a total waste of money (a lot of it) and time Davos is when someone 99.9999% of us have never heard of opines that it is worth spending huge sums on a elite, useless talkfest if it can “shift the consciousness of ONE CEO or senior political leader” who can give the Amway Plan to a couple of his mates.

This rot about transferring wealth from the rich to the poor has been going on for generations, but the rich are still rich and the poor are still poor. The elites who attend these bizarre chat shows are in the former bracket. It’s very doubtful that they hand over much of their wealth to the poor; in fact, they crib money from others to travel to exotic venues to talk useless crap; and the people they think should be sharing their ‘wealth’ are your average man and woman who is ‘rich’ only in comparison with people who don’t even get enough to eat.

These elites are made up of nutters, alright, but the claim by the author that their childhoods have unhinged them seems to be just as nutty, and really doesn’t add anything to awareness that equality and wealth re - distribution will never occur, no matter how much money that could be put to better use is wasted by elites blathering on about it.
Posted by NeverTrustPoliticians, Thursday, 6 February 2014 8:54:53 AM
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Much to agree with here, but I think laying it at the feet of a damaged childhood is too simplistic.

It's not just the business executives, academics, judges, lawyers, media personnel who are involved in exploitation of ordinary people. We are ALL now dependent on exploitation of others & of the environment, not just for our lifestyles which are clearly unsustainable & unjust, but for our very survival. My childhood wasn't particularly damaged, but I got into the swing of exploitation right from school & it wasn't until much later that I realised not only what I was doing, but what needed to change for me to be able to stop. Literally, if I was to be able to keep a roof overhead I'd need to be able to continue to pay the rent/ mortgage. To do that I'd need to maintain a job for life, working for one of these exploiting businesses or their agents or lackeys. This is the result of the fact that the elite once stole our birthright of access to land & we can only have access if we agree to serve them & their descendants, agents & lackeys forever more.

Don't believe it? Try telling your boss you object to his ethics, or Centrelink that you will not work for any of these ... you will immediately find yourself without money, without a roof, exposed, getting sicker and dying soon enough. Until landrights are restored there is a gun at our heads. We continue to operate on the basis of survival of the fittest until we are free to choose a different path, & that requires that the natural foundation for life, OUR NATURAL RIGHT OF FREE ACCESS TO air, water sunlight and LAND is restored.

How might that come about? (following)

Chris Baulman
@landrights4all
Posted by landrights4all, Thursday, 6 February 2014 11:06:27 AM
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NTP,
Inclined to agree.
SD
Posted by Shaggy Dog, Thursday, 6 February 2014 11:11:40 AM
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So, How might the restoration of landrights come about?
Revolution? No! The elites, & their working & middle class servants who enjoy & depend on social stability for this crazy system to chug on delivering our lifestyles have the guns!

What they (we) want is MORE of everything, except tax which we want less of ... especially less welfare for those unemployed bludgers! So why not reduce their welfare dependence by letting them take some responsibility for their own food & shelter? They already have free access to land via public housing & rent subsidies, so instead of forcing them to look for ever shrinking job opportunities (maintaining the crazy system) why not ALLOW (NOT FORCE!) them the OPTION to satisfy their mutual obligation to society by reducing their welfare dependence by taking more responsibility for their own food & shelter? see https://www.facebook.com/pages/Change-Centrelink-Activity-Test/111159512287661?id=111159512287661&sk=info

Why might the beneficiaries of the current crazy system support this? It would save taxes, would enhance social stability & give them vital, safe neighbourhoods to return home to after their 40 hour week. see http://ntw.net46.net/NTWmodel/NTWModeloverview.htm

Chris Baulman
@landrights4all
Posted by landrights4all, Thursday, 6 February 2014 11:14:02 AM
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Robert’s peculiar blend of conspiracy theories and psychobabble gets stranger as his list of people supposedly deranged by childhood trauma gets longer.

His thesis presumes that the poor are poor because the rich are rich. But Bill Gates didn’t get to be the world’s richest man by stealing from the poor. He did it by creating something new that people wanted to buy. That’s how capitalism works - - not a zero-sum game where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

By pretty much any measure we want to take – life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, the percentage of the population living in poverty, access to clean water and sanitation – human life has never been better. What’s more, the rate of improvement is now faster in the developing than the developed world, closing the gap in living standards that grew after the industrial revolution.

Yes, there are huge problems in developing countries where many people are desperately poor; and yes, we should do more about it. But wrecking the only system that has proven to be capable of delivering sustained and widespread prosperity is going to make almost everyone worse off.
Posted by Rhian, Thursday, 6 February 2014 2:40:24 PM
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This article reminds me of an exchange I had with my Russian guide during a tour of the Kremlin in the 1960's.

I remember the bemused look on his face when I explained to him that in capitalist countries man was exploited by man, whereas thank heavens in socialist countries it was the other way around.
Posted by plerdsus, Thursday, 6 February 2014 3:36:19 PM
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