Mind's Eye Re: What to do about the rich?

If we were all millionaires who would do the work we love so much?
Gabby's dirge reminded me I ain't been to the pub for a couple of
weeks. The folk singers do lunchtime today, so I'm off for a few
choruses of John Barleycorn.

Given I have no interest in clothes and can't take the weather naked,
Andrew, I buy shirts, socks and trousers direct from a Portuguese
factory in boxes of a dozen at twice the factory gate price. I am not
otherwise sure how to subvert the rich and their retailing. As far as
I can I've gone no logo except for our German (also made in Portugal)
car, which despite all its vorsprung durch tecknologie does not
achieve the claimed mpg figures. I suppose, in buying the car, I have
contributed to the Volkswagen senior managements use of Angolan
prostitutes flown first class to the Paris Hilton - and had I gone BMW
would have been rewarding the Nazi-Daimler fortunes invested in them.
British rewards to slavers were in billions. I like the idea of
consumers not rewarding such filthy rich and don't drink Starbucks on
grounds of tax fiddling - overall the strategy doesn't work.

On Mar 13, 10:06 am, andrew vecsey <andrewvec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, March 8, 2013 7:44:10 AM UTC+1, archytas wrote:
>
> > ........The rich are independent of the rest of us. ........
>
> No. They depend on customers to make them rich.
>
>
>
> > ...... A flourishing economy requires customers as well as investors.
> > .......
>
> Exactly
> ......since 1979 all the productivity gains of America's economy have gone
> to the richest
>
> > 1%.) ............when anyone in our society lands in the
> > category of the problematic rich we should say, as at the end of a
> > cheesy TV game show, "Congratulations, you won the economy game! Well
> > done." ...........
>
> Yes, exchange part of their wealth for merit points and redistribute their
> wealth to the poorest who need it most.
> The problem is not people getting rich, but rather people becoming too
> rich. When there are no limits to wealth, we do not have a sustainable
> system where the poor have a chance to become rich.  One thing we can all
> do to limit the "too weathy" is not to support them by buying their
> products and services. This is very easy to do as usually we do not need
> their products and services which are actually harmful to us. Vote them out
> with your wallets.

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