On Aug 25, 2:39Â am, Bret Cahill
aol.com> wrote:>>>>When a wealthy famous celebrity pretends he's not a part
>>>>of "the club," (i.e. the owners of America), all you can do
>>>>is laugh. It's an ironic version of the liar's paradox. Those
>>>>rich wealthy bastards don't care about you, says the rich
>>>>wealth bastard. Yeah, and he does.
>>> Did he inherit his wealth like most of the rich have done or did he
>>> make it on his own?
>> What difference would it make?
>
> Georgists make a distinction between living off the product of human
> labor and living off of ownership of geo resources.
>
>> Many of the wealthy
>> bastards who are selected to be the choices for the
>> electorate, about whom he was talking when he
>> claimed "they don't care about you," made their own
>> money as well.
>
> Some by selling cigs.
>
Which are things people want, that's how you're _supposed_
to make money.
>>> I don't see Carlin as being part of any club. He wasn't the type.
>> I don't see it as a literal club, anyway. I see it as a
>> projection.
>
> DeTocqueville wrote that the rich in a democracy had no club.
>
> Of course, democracy ain't gonna happen in a country where some are so
> ignorant they think a gun is an individualist "pocket veto."
>
Which it is. Of course you're so ignorant you can't name a single
time
when gun control has worked. Of course neither can I.
>> Anyway, he was talking about the "owners."
>
> Georgists talk about _land_ owners.
>
>> As a rich
>> wealthy player in the Entertainment Industry, which has
>> the greatest interest in dumbing down the public, since
>> a more critical public might require entertainment that
>> requires more thought to produce, he is one of the owners.
Actually no because Carlin made entertainment that required some
critical thinking and thus it was not in his interest to dumb down
anyone. Your prejudice is showing.
>
> The owners wouldn't want it to slip out that Republicans only want you
> to work for free.
>
Wow that's a stupid thing to say.
> Not even as a joke.
>
> Bret Cahill
