phonon
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| Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ May 18 2007,23:30) | | Quote (phonon @ May 18 2007,18:37) | To compare aristocrats to entrepreneurs isn't a good analogy. When I say entrepreneurs, I mean people who busted their humps to make some money, used that money (and lots of debt) to create a business.
Aristocrats were usually people born into money, land, and position or people who did a favor for the king (or whatever sovereign) and received money, land, or position as a reward. |
Oh, I think it is quite a good analogy. In both cases, they make decisions that affected everyone's lives, without any input or responsibility to anyone who was affected by those decisions. And in both cases, they justify their autocracy with "But. . . but . . . I'm the guy who MAKES the decisions and BUILT the country/company !!!!!! You commoners are just too STUPID to take over from me !!!!!!"
As for being born into it, uh, how did most of the richest people in the US get their fortunes? That's right -- they got it the OLD-FASHIONED way ------- they inherited it.
The situation is PRECISELY the same. Both set up a social system wherein their authority is not only unquestioned, but unquestion-ABLE. And both resist democracy within their domain just as avidly as the other.
As for "busting their humps", surely you know that the way to get rich is NOT to work hard --- the way to get rich is to have lots of OTHER PEOPLE work hard FOR you. |
I guess the question I keep trying to ask is where do you draw the line?
When does someone go from "hard working entrepreneur" to "corporado aristocrat?" When does he have to relinquish control of his company?
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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