Originally Posted by JAPOV
Why don't any of you ever talk about "fair trade" at the employee/consumer level. If necessity is the mother of invention, then why does only 5% of the population visibly profit from productivity? Seems to me that the "paycheck to paycheck" class (the other 95%) are never the ones starting trade wars or crashing the stock market...


Why don't any of you ever talk about "fair trade" at the employee/consumer level.

What is your definition of “fair trade”?


If necessity is the mother of invention, then why does only 5% of the population visibly profit from productivity?

It’s called capital....when you can write a cheque with 9 zeros and are prepared to take the risks, you reap the reward, The 95% also profit from productivity....they get to keep their jobs.


Seems to me that the "paycheck to paycheck" class (the other 95%) are never the ones starting trade wars or crashing the stock market...

They vote in their reps to do that for them...and it seems a fair number are OK with the war and a fair number are not OK with the war....maybe that’s the “fair trade off”
And the market correction was a great opportunity to buy....so it was a good thing for the 95%...if they didn't take advantage of this weeks turmoil, they will never write a cheque with 9 zeros

Just some thoughts

Steve

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