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> Yep, children starving on the street while a few people accumulate
> more wealth than they can possibly spend in their lifetime: it's
> perplexing! How could a global capitalist market economy possibly
> lead to this severe inequality? Everybody knows that markets are
> efficient, right?
Well, if such vacuous generalities as the "global capitalist market economy" bringing about "severe inequality" satisfy you intellectually, there is nothing perplexing about the world. The Truth has been revealed to us from day 1, and all we have to do is to preach to the unconverted.
-- One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the truth. A gallows was erected in front of the city gates. A herald announced, "Whoever would enter the city must first answer the truth to a question which will be put to him." Nasrudin was first in line. The captain of the guard asked him, "Where are you going? Tell the truth -- the alternative is death by hanging."
"I am going," said Nasrudin, "to be hanged on that gallows."
"I don't believe you."
"Very well, if I have told a lie, then hang me!"
"But that would make it the truth!"
"Exactly," said Nasrudin, "your truth." * TagZilla 0.057 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org