On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > As for the select few being happy, my limited knowledge of history > says that it was the background for the French Revolution. You need to > visit the palace at Versailles to understand why the French revolution > happened. no amount of teaching history in the class helped as that > visit to Versailles.
Heh, I was pointing out exactly this to a friend on a recent trip to Paris - no wonder even the French got off their behinds to revolt. Still, there ought to be better solutions than revolution and anarchy. Capitalism in its current shape is on its last legs in any case, a couple more years of inflationary QE is at most what the markets will bear. This whole exercise of bailouts and welfare chopping is only going to leave us with weak currencies, demoralized workforces, a devalued education system [1] and a bitter rich who aren't sure why more money isn't making them happy [0] [0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053231/Worlds-expensive-house-Antilia-Mumbai-lies-abandoned.html [1] Rampant grade inflation due to competition, and the unsupportable demand for more schools causing lowering of standards across the board
