Liberated citizens should share oil wealth?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Whether or not that is true, it does not follow that therefore the most productive get the most money.

No; but that's generally true for other reasons.

Originally posted by sh76
No; but that's generally true for other reasons.

I don't agree.

Originally posted by sh76
No; but that's generally true for other reasons.

Account for Bernard Madoff.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Account for Bernard Madoff.

Criminals can exist under any type of economic system.

Originally posted by sh76
Criminals can exist under any type of economic system.

It's an easy task separating the criminals from the super producers, isn't it?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It's an easy task separating the criminals from the super producers, isn't it?

There's an overlap, obviously. Michael Milken was both a super producer and a criminal.

Bernie Madoff produced very little because everything he produced was based on fraud. He was a criminal and not a super producer.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg are super producers and not criminals.

Originally posted by sh76

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg are super producers and not criminals.

So there's a line and sometimes it's blurred. Sometimes wealth is a function of talent, sometimes it's a function of who you know. You can't generalise or moralise about how good or bad wealthy people are purely on the basis of them being wealthy. Right?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
So there's a line and sometimes it's blurred. Sometimes wealth is a function of talent, sometimes it's a function of who you know. You can't generalise or moralise about how good or bad wealthy people are purely on the basis of them being wealthy. Right?

Absolutely right.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It's an easy task separating the criminals from the super producers, isn't it?

Heirs are neither. Capitalists are neither.