I don’t know of any perfect system, the ones I’ve studied historically always have something. Many modern day systems proclaim to be of the people and for the people but you still end up with this an ultra rich senators or Stalin and starvation and plump nomenklatura political class. Over simplification I know but point is there are always abuses. It sounds nice to say “no one needs this much, let’s give it to the poor” but even there is mass corruption. Remember all those life changing billions donated to Haiti with their last big earthquake? Much of it went poof in fees and siphoning and Haiti is unchanged.

I also think it’s easy to emotionally manipulate people into a frenzy “bezos has stolen from us, let’s get our pitchforks and seize his manor” and I feel it too as I scrolled and scrolled.

Mind you, I really don’t like bezos and his phallic space machine or his absurd mega yachts that he frivolously wastes resources to disassemble national monument bridges to get out of the shipping docks in Europe. That said, I also don’t have a right to his money. As it was once said “but the poor you will always have with you.” I focus more on treating them in my here and now than fantasies about pitchforks.

And as a final point, I support the 99% protests but notice how those all got co-oped and now we speak of racial warfare, gender war, library wars, economic wars, actual wars, and the evergreen ALIEN INVASION IMMINENT LITTLE GREEN MEN HELD BY US GOVT. headlines. So I do hope these discussion come back and I will study the developments.