Yes, it seems to me that some people value equality above all in economics. To them it is better that everyone be equally poor than everyone be better off with a select few much better off.

Exactly. Greed is good, envy is bad. A slightly different word is selfish, which I submit is also a good character trait. Self-ish, doing that which makes me feel good about myself.

No person does anything except that which pleases them. No person.

Take a look at this graph:

http://upperleftcoast.blogspot.com/2009/09/whats-wrong-with-this-picture.html

Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
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A good lesson plan is to start a drive to remove the profit motive from wages and salary. Obviously, anything you earn in wages over what is required to get to and from work as well as provide sustenance for the work done is profit. Of course, we'll need to throw in a modest stipend for food, clothing and shelter to survive.

Of course, anything above rice and beans with a little piece of meat twice a week would be from profit and therefore banned. Same with children since they must be paid for out of profit from another area of work being little expenses and long term investments.

Profit is bad for the investor taking market risk but good for the worker who takes his profit before the owner sees a dime.

Another gem from Soviet-era Russia:

"They pretend to pay us. We pretend to work."

Of course, anything above rice and beans with a little piece of meat twice a week would be from profit and therefore banned. Same with children since they must be paid for out of profit from another area of work being little expenses and long term investments.

Well, you could sell 'labor futures' to pay for your children's upkeep. Wasn't there some similar system in this country once? Not indentured servitude. Something similar, though. Anybody remember the word? It's on the tip of my tongue.

Yours,
Tom DeGisi

"Apprenticeship system" ?

This is interesting:

http://www.answers.com/topic/indentured-servant