sandinista wrote:Marx's prediction about the growing gap between rich and poor still haunts the land--and the entire planet. The growing concentration of wealth creates still more poverty. As some few get ever richer, more people fall deeper into destitution, finding it increasingly difficult to emerge from it. The same pattern holds throughout much of the world. For years now, as the wealth of the few has been growing, the number of poor has been increasing at a faster rate than the earth's population. A rising tide sinks many boats.
This is where the whole Marxist argument falls apart. The paragraph above is complete, utter bullshit of the highest order.
The fact that Bill Gates is the richest man on the planet not only does not cause people to "fall deeper in to destitution," exactly the opposite is true. This is because unlike the fallacious and ignorant Marxist presumption that "wealth" is a limited pile of money and when the "rich" take more the "poor" get less, the opposite is true. It's known as the "Marxist Zero-sum Fallacy," and it's what makes Marx's entire ideology one giant steaming pile of horseshit.
In reality, wealth is practically unlimited, and "the rich" don't take piles of cash and stuff them under their beds, thereby taking wealth out of circulation and denying the benefits of that wealth to others. What they actually do is use that wealth to create products, businesses, industries and jobs. In point of fact, a rising economic tide raises all ships, including those who do not directly participate in a rising economy, like the victims of shithole totalitarians, socialists and Marxist despots. This occurs because the greater the wealth circulating in the economy, the lower the costs of goods, the more selection, the more widely they are distributed, and the more disposable income those in relatively wealthy nations have to dedicate towards helping the poor in shithole tyrannies like Africa and even Venezuela.
The fact that Bill gates CONTROLS great wealth does not mean that he's denying wealth to others. In fact, he is ultimately responsible for the direct and indirect employment of hundred of thousands of people all across the world and a good deal of economic prosperity and something like 40 billion dollars in charity from his own pocket.
And THAT is how economics actually works, not the as the idiotic, ideological, propagandistic lies and idiocy of brainless Marxist dupes suggest it does.
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