Crank This

[John Gelles <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

	In a world of struggle for dominance and power,
	where fighting aristocracies have been replaced
	by political aristocracies and aristocracies of
	wealth, money and language compete as weapons
	of struggle: either or both can support
	egalitarian or hierarchical outcomes.

	Money is often the leveler:  It offers the
	possibility of equal shares.  Language can
	support a leveling or further separation of
	rich and poor, elites and peasants.

	No mandarin worship can ever be egalitarian.
	You cannot make ordinary people gifted in
	formal communication.  Let us proceed to
	speak plain words to each other.  And then
	talk sense to the world.

	Why tax the rich when it is possible to
	make the poor wealthy without it?  How?
	By watching how money is spent, and not
	preventing it from rapidly developing
	production needed to make everyone OK.

	John Gelles
	http://myturn.org