Reply to post: Re: Ditch the white cat, please

Inequality increasing? BOLLOCKS! You heard me: 'Screw the 1%'

Matt Bryant Silver badge
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Re: Ditch the white cat, please

"While it is true that no one needs any of the Learjets/Veyrons, etc....." The use of such high-end luxury goods is a staple misdirection of the Lefties intended to focus attention on 'the excesses of the rich'. Instead, would they be so happy to consider the elimination of lower-end luxuries enjoyed by 'the common people'? How about chocolate - do we really need chocolate, even for 'that time of month'? No, if we are to only focus humanity's efforts on the noble goal of producing 'what is best for all' then chocolate appears to be a frivolous luxury item. But the chocolate industry employs millions of people both directly and indirectly in both the developed and developing World, and is a key crop in many of the less-developed countries where cocoa is grown. How about the tourism industry - do you really need your annual two weeks in Ibiza, or is another 'luxury'? Yet the tourist industry similarly employs millions and generates incomes throughout the World.

Or how about the computer you are using to read this, possibly a tablet or smartphone, do you really need that or is it a luxury that used up 'precious resources' that could have been diverted to the 'betterment of mankind'? How about The Register itself, should the 'luxury' of such websites consume resources and skills that could be better applied? Don't let the carefully crafted and deceitful envy-politics arguments blinker your viewpoint, otherwise you could soon find your yourself daily queuing for your government-assigned loaf of bread, reading your one government-approved 'newspaper', whilst on the waiting list for your one-model Lada (whilst 'the guardians of the people's revolution' that replaced 'the rich' are chauffeured around in their Zil's, eating caviar, on their way to their weekend dachas).

The Wall came down for a reason - democracy and Capitalism is better.

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