Comments on: More on Wealth and Poverty http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: willy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1527 willy Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:14:42 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html#comment-1527 <p>Poor countries don't need our "help" at all. The Congolese were quite happy before the Belgians invaded. They lived in their huts, had trading lines along their rivers, occasionally killed some of each other in small wars, like all civilized and uncivilized populaces crave to do.</p> <p>So let's leave them and their natural resources alone; they may need those, perhaps in 500 years, when they finally get bored with living in huts, and decide to start inventing "products"! </p> Poor countries don’t need our “help” at all. The Congolese were quite happy before the Belgians invaded. They lived in their huts, had trading lines along their rivers, occasionally killed some of each other in small wars, like all civilized and uncivilized populaces crave to do.

So let’s leave them and their natural resources alone; they may need those, perhaps in 500 years, when they finally get bored with living in huts, and decide to start inventing “products”!

]]> By: speedbird http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1526 speedbird Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:58:34 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html#comment-1526 <p>Interesting site. Great sympathy for your near-right views. Feel you overstep the mark slightly: many on the (near) left support innovation and free-thinking, and in my personal experience of working for a living as a scientist, all businesses are obsessed with the concept of the revolutionary redistribution of wealth from poor to rich, and will only innovate when whipped soundly. But that's just my personal experience.</p> Interesting site. Great sympathy for your near-right views. Feel you overstep the mark slightly: many on the (near) left support innovation and free-thinking, and in my personal experience of working for a living as a scientist, all businesses are obsessed with the concept of the revolutionary redistribution of wealth from poor to rich, and will only innovate when whipped soundly. But that’s just my personal experience.

]]> By: Greg http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1525 Greg Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:58:47 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/more_on_wealth_.html#comment-1525 <p>Excellent discussion, as usual.</p> Excellent discussion, as usual.

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