Reflections From a Murky Pond

It’s a tired and overused metaphor but one that has become so utterly entrenched in America’s vocabulary that few of us ever even think about it – the wealth pie.

People “want a bigger piece of the pie” or they complain that, “No matter how you slice it, the rich get most of the pie.”

This is a horribly pernicious falsehood. The pie is a lie. It’s a false metaphor that has helped create much of America’s current social and economic woe.

Zero Truth In Zero Sum

The first great falsehood of the “money pie” is that it is predicated upon wealth being a zero-sum game; i.e., there is a finite and/or fixed amount of houses, cars, healthcare, etc. to divide amongst the population, and the more the 1% get the less is left for the rest of us. Once, that held some truth, but now that our personal and national economies are not agrarian-based this is no longer true. Wealth is no longer a constant; it grows, shrinks, and changes with ever increasing rapidity.

Now add to that the fact that no nation, especially not America, is economically isolated. Globalism has expanded the sources of wealth, labor, and materials across nations’ borders. This means that when looking at the distribution of wealth within any singular nation one has to ascertain how much of that wealth came from within its borders and how much of came from exogenous sources. In other words, wealth flows.

Not Even A Crumb

The second and far more destructive great falsehood of the “money pie” is it engenders the belief that wealth owned by society. That is patently false.  Society as a whole doesn’t own even a single crumb of this fictional “money pie.” Society is a process -  a woefully amorphous process at best – and, as such, neither creates nor owns wealth and has no authority to claim it or divide it in any manner whatsoever.

Wealth, that growing, shrinking, flowing, ever changing chimera,  is created by individuals – either singularly or in voluntary association with each other – and morally belongs to those individuals and solely to those individuals. It doesn’t belong to “society” or any other unrelated individuals or groups. To believe otherwise is one of the greatest of evils, that of slavery.

Yes, slavery. If an individual does not have the full right to product of his or her labor to do with and apportion as he or she wills, that individual is a slave and is merely chattel of those who have usurped the authority to dispose of that individual’s product.

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We continue to hear a bit, though not a great deal, about the anti-market and anti-American filth “occupying” Wall Street in New York and other cities across America.

Local Union Of Looters And Moochers

A small few of them are honest in their intentions and self-identification, which makes them a damn site better than most of the delusional rabble surrounding them.

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The drudges and slackers of the Occupy Wall St. – and the other cities where they’d gathered in their unwashed masses – bear a great and humorous resemblance to the pop culture meme of the zombie apocalypse.

Ugly, smelly, not-too-bright, and slow moving, with a taste for eating people – they slouch about and groan their chants while uninfected and uncorrupted people try to keep them at a distance.

Moooooore Mooooney. Mooor Oootheeer People’s Moneeeeey!

Of course, if these Liberal zombies had been moaning for “more brains” they and America wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.

The funny thing is that these Liberal zombies with their desire to eat the rich have forgotten that popular culture also provides humans with a tried and true methodology of dealing with such a zombie apocalypse.

Head shots! They work every single time without fail. Additionally, in crowd situations, pass-through and missed shots will stop or slow down others in the drooling horde.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

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