Comments on: Rich versus poor gap widens http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17375 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:45:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17375/comment-page-1#comment-863080 Reader's Write Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17375#comment-863080 Ok, so the economic system is bullshit, not understood by the people running it, and the eternal seat warmer politicians, as it turns out. It turns out that all the economy I was tought was hogwash, by professors who only learned in the classroom the same things learned by the bankers and investment experts that drove the economy broke. All of which reminds me of a economics professor who teached communist economy at a Russian University who emmigrated to the USA to teach capitalist economy. When asked how he could reconcile the change, he said, "I teached in Russia what the party wanted. It was that or else.". Which is why Bill Gates, a college dropout, has over 50 billion times the money than a friend have (which after deducting his debts is less than nothing), while over time, he has worked harder and more than Bill Gates, doing heavy manual labor for 10 years, going to war in Vietnam, and then doing heavy intellectual work as a college professor (after getting a masters' degree) for 15 years. Lets face it, we are being taken for a ride. Welcome to America. Ok, so the economic system is bullshit, not understood by the people running it, and the eternal seat warmer politicians, as it turns out.
It turns out that all the economy I was tought was hogwash, by professors who only learned in the classroom the same things learned by the bankers and investment experts that drove the economy broke.

All of which reminds me of a economics professor who teached communist economy at a Russian University who emmigrated to the USA to teach capitalist economy. When asked how he could reconcile the change, he said, “I teached in Russia what the party wanted. It was that or else.”.

Which is why Bill Gates, a college dropout, has over 50 billion times the money than a friend have (which after deducting his debts is less than nothing), while over time, he has worked harder and more than Bill Gates, doing heavy manual labor for 10 years, going to war in Vietnam, and then doing heavy intellectual work as a college professor (after getting a masters’ degree) for 15 years.

Lets face it, we are being taken for a ride. Welcome to America.

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