Here's a key post (though now nearly a couple weeks old) on how rich donors called the shots regarding Steven Salaita's dehiring prior to the vote by the Board of Trustees (who are themselves just another bunch of rich people and rich appeasers).
Here we have one little example both of the power of the rich (of course, we live in a Plutocracy) and the costs associated with having people who are rich, along with the systems of law and property which enable people to get rich (which supposedly make us all better off by providing the right incentives--which is nonsense). Those people will then destroy everything worthwhile in society (democracy, human rights, art, science) in order to maintain power for themselves.
The benefit to society for having a capitalist class are not as great as the losses. The best example is Global Heating. The rich are always ready to sink the entire ship so long as they will continue to be on top.
Here we have one little example both of the power of the rich (of course, we live in a Plutocracy) and the costs associated with having people who are rich, along with the systems of law and property which enable people to get rich (which supposedly make us all better off by providing the right incentives--which is nonsense). Those people will then destroy everything worthwhile in society (democracy, human rights, art, science) in order to maintain power for themselves.
The benefit to society for having a capitalist class are not as great as the losses. The best example is Global Heating. The rich are always ready to sink the entire ship so long as they will continue to be on top.
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