Message-ID: <339F5ABD.36F4@mind.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 18:11:09 -0800 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@mind.net> Subject: Re: average American's perception of the US role in the 1st To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
V. Dimitroff wrote:> > Could you provide us with an example in the animal world where one
> > animal or group of animals lay claim to more possessions/resources than
> > others, thereby depriving the rest of the animal world?
>
> Well, pretty much everywhere the stronger <eat> more than the weaker,
> and unless food is extremely abundant (it rarely is) the rest are
> "deprived" of this resource.
And yet the strong only eat/consume what they can at the moment; they don't amass food/resources they take/use what they can, whereas we have CEO's with multi-million dollar annual salaries that have to hire financial planners to properly "manage" their wealth. Tell me, how do you spend $10 million a year?
> The term "depriving" implies one was <entitled> to something: entitled
> by Whom? Through what Law or other "entitlement" mechanism? Wasn't
> the
> <earning>, <achieving through effort>, or <in exchange=sacrifice> the
> most natural and efficient, and therefore moral and fair mechanism?
Could you explain how a child born into the Rockerfeller family "earned" or "achieved through effort" an inheritence greater than the GNP of most developing nations?
How does this relate to development and technology transfer? Because the World Bank is funded (in part)--and therefore beholden to--the "mega-rich" who want a return on their capital investment; whether this means overwhelming a country with a debt it struggles to repay while the majority of the nation's citizenry suffer to make a few people rich (i.e. Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Nairobi, Kenya, etc., etc., etc.)
B. Diamond