RAZD writes:
Because of this a free market capitalist system will create and maintain multitudes of poor people. I'd like to thinks that these poor people have stronger morals than the takers ... but I don't know for sure.
Well I think we know for sure that people are universally the same - on average.
But we also know that they individually differ. And a very common feature of individuals that make and run large corporations is psychopathy. So go figure.
This is why we have laws and regulated capitalism - to differing degrees.
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