the first reason is that the market does NOT reward people according to work. work is only one factor out of many. some of these factors are good and should be rewarded, like ingenuity. some are either a-moral or immoral, like luck or privilege. privilege can also be explained as owning the necessary capital to invest. there are a lot of hardworking people out there without anything to invest in.

this whole "capitalism rewards according to work" thing needs to be explained in context. when capitalism was just starting, it was fighting against an immoral system where people were rewarding with wealth and power according to nobility. they did not have to work to be rich- they were born rich. Adam Smith, therefore, in trying to convince people that capitalism was better then feudalism, devised a theory on why things are expensive (or not expensive). to him, something is only expensive if it takes a lot of effort and labor to make. therefore, capitalism rewards according to labor.

this became the dominant theory of value for over a century. it was called the "Labor Theory of Value." (LTV)

"Forty years after its initial publication, a study called The Limits to Growth is looking depressingly prescient. Commissioned by an international think tank called the Club of Rome, the 1972 report found that if civilization continued on its path toward increasing consumption, the global economy would collapse by 2030. Population losses would ensue, and things would generally fall apart.

The study was — and remains — nothing if not controversial, with economists doubting its predictions and decrying the notion of imposing limits on economic growth. Australian researcher Graham Turner has examined its assumptions in great detail during the past several years, and apparently his latest research falls in line with the report’s predictions, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The world is on track for disaster, the magazine says.

The study, initially completed at MIT, relied on several computer models of economic trends and estimated that if things didn’t change much, and humans continued to consume natural resources apace, the world would run out at some point. Oil will peak (some argue it has) before dropping down the other side of the bell curve, yet demand for food and services would only continue to rise. Turner says real-world data from 1970 to 2000 tracks with the study’s draconian predictions: “There is a very clear warning bell being rung here. We are not on a sustainable trajectory,” he tells Smithsonian.

Incumbents:
President: Barack Obama (D)
House: GOP 242 – Dem 193
Senate: Dem 53 – GOP 47

• China banished and separated Hmong people into 75 fucking different groups.

• The US started Nam, used us a tool in their Military, manipulated the youth into ghetto-ebonics speaking dumbasses and now are calling us terrorists.

I fucking hate you China. Fuck you. I would have had a country if you didn't fuck with us. Even worse, I fucking hate Hmong people for thinking that Laos, the most stagnant jungle pond in Southeast Asia, is fucking home, and that Vang Pao's action to be Rambo is right. What a fucking joke.

At that point I'm not sure what you should do. We don't have another McDuffie County story for you to comment on. It might be best for one of you to set up a forum somewhere so you can continue this conversation.

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