Re Chomsky re South America

Re Chomsky talking about the growing independence of South America

Perspective is truth, unperspective isn't.

To put Chomsky in the bigger perspective, the third world is at 51% of world wealth now and climbing 10% every 30 years, and no doubt with acceleration. That's like 98% by 2100. [Sprout and Weaver, International distribution of income 1960-1987, Kyklos, v45, 1992, pp237-258.]

Empires plunder and then get plundered. Every time. Steal a heap, meet the neighbours. If I steal the neighbours' property, they will come around. I can keep them off with all the guns I bought with what I stole, for a while, but I'm busy at every window. What I steal is limited, but the energy of the neighbours goes on and on till I'm gone. Infinite attack beats finite plunder every time. The first world stole the world for 500 years. American superwealth steals from American citizens to pay defense costs, so the plunderers are attacked from within the house too. Lesson of history.

Plundering is a mug's game. Eg, Hitler. Spain stole Inca gold. Where is the Spanish empire of the 17th C? The Dutch of the 18th? Ditto British empire of the 19th C. Ditto America, 20th C. And ditto Chinese empire of the 21st century. Justice is a virtue because it delivers happiness.

99% of people are decent enough, but they let a few steal the world, and warmonger and cannonfodder their way to extinction. Selfearned money is good, and love of selfearned money is fine. Otherearned money comes with an angry person attached, is the root of all unnecessary social evils, and is fatal. The robbed can only throw grains of sand, but sand erodes rocks. The robbers get soft, and the robbed get busy. Injury energises. People are too dangerous to annoy. The sense of equality is stronger than plunder. As doormats, people are totally unreliable.

The whites in South Africa, the thieves of Russia, got a century of grief and selfbrutalisation. Inequality grows and then collapses. We have pay/yr from $10 to $10 billion. Pay justice is $100,000 /yr for every working person, including housewives and students. World income is $300 trillion, and there are about 3 billion working people. 99% are underpaid. Pay injustice means superpoverty, means emptying the market.

With pay justice, we would have 100 times faster progress, because now 90% of scientists are tied up in pay inequality, in the military-industrial complex etc, and 90% of potential scientists are too poor to become scientists [and inventors, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, innovators, etc]. Allow all the blood to go to the head, and the whole body dies. Sicily conquered America. Underpay is constantly attacking overpay. Overpay is hell. The only reason anyone thinks overpay is good is lack of perspective. Hitler stole Europe, Europe hit back. Duh. Ceausescu stole Rumania, Rumania hit back. Overpay is overpower to rake money, but it falls to underpower. Marie Antoinette.

No one is more than about 30% more productive than the average person. Set 100 people to create wealth by work, with equal tools, materials, data, time, etc, and no one will produce more than about 30% more than the average. We allow pay for many things that are not work, which equals theft, equals violence, evergrowing.

Awake, aware selfinterest will energetically act to avoid injuring others. Overpay is pollution of your own nest/environment. Don't be moral, or altruistic, educate your selfinterest. Make everyone in the world equal heirs of large deceased estates. The private heir has done nothing to earn that money. Everyone has done the work to make the goods that money buys. 1% get 98% of world income and do less than 1% of the work. The golden rule is the real thing: don't hit people, they hit back! Duh.

Be afraid, be very afraid of stealing, of taking out more than you put in. Money is good for everything, so theft of money is theft of everything. China is now gungho for limitless overpay. If it knew, it is consequently already falling.

By allowing a little overpay for yourself, you allow limitless overpay for others.

Money doesn't trickle down like healing water, it gushes up like burning fire. Make everyone equal heirs of large deceased fortunes and thus water your garden, the world.

Attack your faith in just going for limitlessly more with the question: Dude, where's my happiness?!