Brett

What I was getting at, which probably was not made clear enough, is that if someone or a collective of workers is going to buy or build a factory then...

I think this is interesting in relation to the OP; “Who are the 1%”, which I think went off the rails a bit, but it made me look and think about just ...

Something has to account for the state of humanity. I don’t see that your awareness, connection and collaboration comes anywhere close to this.

As opposed to your structured concept of being, I don’t see that Schopenhauer is dictating his own terms, if anything there are no terms, and those yo...

And what about the ambitious? The rebels, the innovators who want to do things differently? I don’t like the state of things in terms of wages, costs ...

So they just move into a ready made factory? Do they build a factory or buy it from someone?

That’s a big statement in relation to the people I listed.

How would you enforce this, how would you manage human behaviour?

Yes your post makes sense. But I think it has be taken into account that this is theoretical. The world won’t operate that way and once again the prof...

No they don’t because they all have to pay the inflated price, which diminishes the value of their wages. If my maths is right they’ll end up with not...

They produce the product but they don’t produce the profit. The profit comes from the difference between production and sale price. Which means you ne...

This would obviously be in the form of better wages, which I would agree with, but the capital has be accumulated first. Who produces it?

To achieve that they would need to do what 1% did, which is build a business from scratch and produce the same wealth that so many resent the 1% havin...

I can help too.

Supposedly the 90% are starved for wealth because 1% has it. But let’s assume the 1% didn't gain it, does that mean the 90% would have it instead? Whe...

Yes and most of us do not live in that milieu. A lot of us don’t want to, a lot can’t and a lot fall before they get there. Hard work may not get you ...

Many on this OP regard the 1% as a blight on the land, parasites and responsible for the hardships of the poorer members of the community. So far as I...

I had made a correction on my post about this as an edit. I’m never sure which is the best: an edit or a new post.

I have a bit of a problem with some posts that keep falling back on a moral position in regard to these people, not that I’m suggesting that of you. T...

For those who might like to enlarge their minds a little: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2020/06/08/scientific-study-luxury-is-not-what-...

The OP is actually about who these people are. But anyway, wealth and income are not apples and oranges, they are inseparable. Edit: actually I’ll cor...

I didn’t think we were talking about the wealthy. I thought it was about the so called 1%, who, yes, are wealthy, but there are lots of wealthy people...

Can show me what? I have no idea what you’re referring to.

This isn’t admiration. It’s an attempt to work out what sort of people they are. I also posted the negative aspects of such people.

You need to show me instead of telling me. I’m responding to the OP itself, which is who are the 1%?

It might be interesting to consider Calvinism “ The Protestant work ethic, the Calvinist work ethic, or the Puritan work ethic is a work ethic concept...

Well that doesn’t tell you anything, does it?

Yes.

Carlos Slim “ Slim was born on January 28, 1940, in Mexico City, to Julián Slim Haddad (born Khalil Salim Haddad Aglamaz) and Linda Helú Atta, both Ma...

Sheldon Gary Adelson was born in 1933 and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, the son of Sarah (née Tonkin) and Arthur Adelson. His fath...

On the basis that someone might be interested in who these people are I took one name at random. “ Larry Ellison was born in New York City, to an unwe...

Actually it’s not interesting, it’s the same thing over and over.

Like what?

Well we have to start somewhere don’t we? How can we determine their ideologies and values unless we identify them and look at their background? What ...

One of the constant problems on this forum is that a question is taken as some form of entrapment, or by asking it I’m saying I support the thing I as...

Yes, I would agree that a free market is the closest to a natural economy. Do you think there should be government regulation?

It may be dishonest, it might be destructive, but how is it “unnatural?

Some things about them we may not be impressed with. 1: They make decisions in a pragmatic way that may hurt others: what do I need, what don’t I need...

It seems to me that everyone’s done everything except address the OP. 1: They’re very hard workers 2: They’re very good a setting an objective and the...

I know they trade, but is this really how they made their wealth? And have we named them yet?

More current update: 1. Jeff Bezos: $183bn (£137bn) The former hedge fund manager turned online book seller started Amazon in his garage in 1994. Bezo...

What do you mean?

Ludicrous.

From the Internet Bill Gates $76 USA 2 Carlos Slim Helu $72 Mexico 3 Amancio Ortega $64 Spain 4 Warren Buffett $58 USA 5 Larry Ellison $48 USA 6 Charl...

The OP is “Who are they?” Just to begin with it would be interesting to know if this is true or not.

I decided to go back to to read your first post. I don’t know whether that was ever possible. Maybe it was when we were still learning about ourselves...

Taking into account your comments on community and family, and posts from others about psychotic CEO’s or environmental destruction or politics or pov...

Okay I think I get where you’re coming from. For life to be about survival every aspect of our life, instinctive or chosen, would need to be based on ...

Does it help if I’m talking about time and the evolution of man, not what happened last year.

Sure.