The Glade 4.0

This is the sort of **** we've built our system of economics on.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

The episode he's referring to ends up with Earth achieving world peace, and the aliens wiping the planet clean because they seeded earth to create a race of warriors, and we blew it.

It does kind of sound like the economic system we have now, miscommunication and opposite results from those planned.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Jesus, I hope that man falls in an open man hole.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All he shows is that the old saying "Warfare is the health of the state" is spot on. He sees a war as a cure to our economic issue. He believes pointless production and destruction moves us forward.

The man doesn't understand the simplest economic realities or if he does he must deny them because of his position. It is like he has never heard the phrase opportunity cost.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville