Reply #91: But if some have it and some don't...

[krispos42]

"this is mine and not yours", I mean, then the ones that don't have it lose to the ones that do. The ones that don't simply get run roughshod over until they are wiped out.

The government and the laws they enforce are suppose to be created so that the desire to aquire is utilized to make the nation and society greater while keeping it in check so that everybody else benefits as well. The urge to achieve, in fulfilling that urge, creates businesses, which hire people and turn raw materials into finished goods or provide services. The laws of society make sure that the people hired are paid and treated fairly, the goods and services are regulated for quality and content and toxicity and labeling and emmissions, and that the increase in the economy is appropriately taxed and the funds used to educate children, build infrastructure, and provide for the common defense. And all that other stuff that government does.

The problem we have is that the urge to achieve has been replaces by the urge to be greedy, so simply making a sucessful product line is not enough. You use your pull as a sucess to manipulate laws and regulatiosn to increase your profit, often by lowering wages and making regulations dangerously loose.