Originally posted by finneganYour tone seems to indicate that successful folks ought to just roll over and happily give their earnings to the slovenly, lazy and immoral who happen to be poor.
Fear not Norm. Our Cameron is a very wealthy Tory git who will cheerfully wave through the sale of Britain's industrial and research base to an American led bunch of corporate thieves because it will make fat bonuses in the city of London, where his own family wealth lies (though naturally it is held in the Cayman Islands for tax purposes). The "march of the makers" he calls it - a bit like the reputed march of lemmings off a cliff into the sea.
-Removed-The Mercantile system was built by the British empire, and was all about contriving advantage for Britain, and supposedly for British workers. Today's corporatism is very much like the old Mercantile system, with government's attempting to curry favor, and more business to their shores.
One of the real reasons for decrepit morals in law, is the lack of morality in legislators, and their recognition that corporations can be extorted of large sums of money to get favorable legislation, and to prevent unfavorable legislation.
The efforts of large corporate entities to advantage themselves is the result of legislators and legislation attempting to manipulate things, or to extort corporations into doing things in a way that those legislators envision as best.
It is like the small merchant in NY's Little Italy who paid the mob for protection.