Originally Posted by
SailorRob
While I understand the point of your post, if indeed these people are capitalist money focused pea brains, this is a very good thing.
Money is just a reflection of goods and services in the economy and thus you can substitute one for the other. Someone who is hell bent on making money is usually hell bent on creating goods and services which are desired by the people, and creating them in a way that is very efficient. So maximising the amount of wonderful goods and services which make our existence better with the least input of resources.
Billionaires are so because they have created an immense amount of goods and services and made peoples lives far better. Due the the amazing system of capitalism, most minimum wage workers in NZ have identical phones to a billionaire - as well as many other things that are no different to what a billionaire has, as they both have access to the best of what there is, obviously not with everything.
Imagine the forum members you speak of, if their loved ones only had access to medical technology, care and services created and provided by the state. We can see plenty of examples of this system across the world.
Believe me an aged care facility in a system that doesn't embrace money focused pea brained capitalism is not a place that you want to even imagine unless you like to think about folk rotting in their own waste.