by Burgerman » 05 Dec 2019, 04:43
You dont own wealth. You MAKE wealth.
You can take a poor country where people die early, have nothing, no natural resources, etc and you can make it very wealthy. Like HK for e.g. All it takes is education, capitalism, free trade, and a little time. In time, in common with all capitalist rich western economies it becomes WEALTHY. The poor have flat screen TVs and can eat, have a roof, clothes, medical care, clean water and sanitation.
You can do the opposite too. As much of the world did starting in the early 1910 to 1920s. You can embrace socialism, and its complete form, the final goal of communism. Wealth redisribution, central control, etc.Just like corbyn, sanders, etc want to do with our countries. Thats a garanteed way to make the wealth vanish, the poorest in society much poorer. It starved 80 million across the asian continent, 20 million across eastern europe. It removed freedom, hope, and any way to recover from around 1/3rd the planet over 50 to 60 years till the berlin wall fell. Now all those countries are desperately poor but beginning to recover.
It was started 20 years ago again in venuzuala, a new convert. The richest south american country, with the greatest oil reserves on the planet, and now after eating all their pets, zoo animals, and running from empty shops where wheelbarrows full of cash wont and cant buy a meal, and away from dirty drug and power devoid hospitals, to other coutries. Suffering inflation running at millions of percent today, the country is in total freefall. That wealh redistribution -- te promis of all socialists -- did what it always does. It bankrupted the country and the money tree of taxing the rich vanished along with production, employment etc. Yet they are so poor that they just voted socialist AGAIN for all the handouts they think they are getting. You couldnt make it up.