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UPSG -> RE: Amerika: of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich (2/16/2009 12:40:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: xBullx
Greetings Lookie,
You have a very well stated post.
I see this as being pretty much in line with natural selection and it's rather contrary with the concept that became an over used campaign phrase of McCain, "The Distribution of the Wealth".
In General:
The Greatest athletes become All-Stars, Pro Bowlers or Gold Medlists.
The Best Military leaders become Generals, or more appropriately Sergeants Major [;)].
The Best Businessmen become wealthy. As it should be.
I agree that some have wealth handed to them, but it is foolish to fret over this. If the silver spoon club are incapable of sustaining their wealth it will soon belong to the man that can rightfully take it. A fool and his money will soon be parted.
Men (again gender neutral) that are capable, will rise to the top. Those sitting around whining about their terrible life or the unfair conditions that are holding them back (in chains/ slave reference/ it's a mental thing) will serve those with the ability to own. Or in other terms; those with the skill, determination and or the ruthlessness to take and keep what they want will be the masters. If you don't like your present position, do something about it on your own.
Interestingly enough in the good ole' US of A up to this point, the master can be anyone that is on his game. I hope it remains as such, if not I suspect we will too become appathetic as a nation and our wealth will vanish.
I only agree with you to the point I agree with any implicit inference that he behooves people in general to adapt to the "game."
That said, I think your view is a little to simplistic. In fact the military functions more like a socialist environment than a capitalist environment. The Marine Corps will use 6 Marines to move an object of the same weight the civilian world will employ 1 man to do. If the U.S. military began resembling the civilian world's corporate drive for profit it would resemble more the culture of Conquistador adventurers than the socialist culture of ethics (which encourage leave no man behind I might add) it has today.
Business and athleticism, while they may share some things in common, are not necessarily the same kind of animal. Many athletes like Shane Mosley and Oscar Dela Hoya where groomed literally from youth - receiving intense training in early formative years - to become great champions today. Few men can enter a sport late in life (usually that means after your mid 20's) like Bernard Hopkins and become a millionaire champ. Extremely rare.
The world of academics and professional life tends to also require sociologically nurturing environments in most peoples formative years to propel them to success. I don't believe it coincidental that U.S. President's come from certain alma maters. Harvard is a king creator or President creator if you prefer, but not necessarily UW-Milwaukee. In fact I feel quite confident in suggesting that there will never be a UW-Milwaukee graduate elected to the U.S. Presidency no matter if he or she is a combination of scholarly and saintly mixed with enough aduacity and prudence to lead executively.
Men and women can arise to upper-middle-class life or even to the higher socio-economic socities in the U.S. for a number of reasons. As far as world freedoms go it remains a fairly free society, it is driven by capitalism, and civil rights have improved over the decades for gays, women, and racial minorities. In this sense capitalism is a good because it allows for uppward mobility - which also is requires an indivdual to expend energy (calories) to improve their quality of life.
On the down side capitalism also assumes, or may even require, losers in the "game." And the game is learned well if you have good tutors (kind of humbles the self-made man theory). Many Americans - and I mean many - simply do not have the quality of tutors or mentorship to develop them into knowledgable, aware, compotent "players" in the game. And after a certain age, even in the United States, it becomes almost impossible to recover lost time and create an "American dream" for yourself.
Most Americans that are born in the middle-class remain in the middle-class for most if not all their life. Same holds true for rich and poor respectively for their own socio-economic category. Middle-class Americans (not upper-middle-class) have what we might call "middle-class values" and they train or indoctrinate their children with the mindset of obedience to both the system and authority. A sociology teacher of mine in a former study of some kind she was hired to do, found that upper-class people teach their children to be creative and to that extent, never mind obdeience to the system.
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