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Message: [QUOTE="AlexeiVronsky, post: 754740, member: 31136"] This guy is obviously an idiot who just doesn't know how to play. I also agree that the majority of people who play poker lose money, that's a given since the house is taking a cut. But to say that the poker companies are terrible for allowing people to gamble is absurd. I agree with him that investing your money's a good idea, I wonder how he feels about investing in poker companies... I do think blaming a number of corporations, and Bush is legitimate though. A number of corporations use exploitative and illegal tactics to make their money, Bush has run up massive deficits to blow things up, therefore removing finished goods from the world as well as destroying the infrastructures these countries and it's citizenry need to produce goods and services. He's also underfunded the sciences and education creating a situation where you're losing potential future growth from those sectors, and why? To blow things up and kill people who could otherwise be productive. While I do believe killing some people and destroying some things can make the world a better and more productive place, not in the manner that Bush is doing. As for the oil companies there's some room for debate, as their product does help people become richer, but when you look at how big the health services sector is and how many people are getting sick and dying partially as a result of their product it becomes somewhat unclear the actual benefit. If you add tetra-ethyl lead into the equation which is associated with the industry, or the abominable behaviour of Shell oil in Nigeria, the track record for the industry's benefits is far below what it should have been. So while no one's more responsible for your own life than you, there are a lot of people and groups who are largely to blame for some individuals and groups being poor. Ask yourself how much better the word should have been if everyone in positions of power were responsible and ethical people, rather than a large proportion of people strictly interested in wealth and power. And ask yourself how many people would still be alive, happy, and productive members of society. So while people should take responsibility for their own actions, they should aggressively deal with the institutions and people who make the world a worse place. (You may say Bush was doing this, which he was, he just did it in a terrible, terrible way that was at least as bad as the problem.) [/QUOTE]

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