A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything." -- Ecclesiastes 10:19 ...
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- Declaration of Independence
The founding fathers understood freedom as a right and a responsibility. A right given by our Creator and a responsibility to choose to do what we ought. When men are free to live, be free and pursue happiness they tend to be industrious, entrepreneurial and ingenuitive. Out of that freedom we get capitalism. Capitalism is a byproduct of free individuals engaging in free Enterprise with little to no interference.
Why does Kohelet state that money is the answer for everything?
Is there a connection between the two statements?
I am hoping to explore this further in a later post. Let me know if you have any insight.
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You need to read Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson's biggest fear was that Corporations would get too big. The largest Corporation in the World was the British East India Company. The Boston Tea Party was a protest against them.
Jefferson and others were fearful of monopolies and the British East India Company had one on trade.
A corporation is not a Democracy, it is a Kingdom and they do well under the system of Fascism. They do better under that system than under Democracy.
Up until the mid 19th centuries corporations were controlled by the states.
Presidents McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt were well known for breaking of up trusts.
The US still has the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on the books... but sadly we have not enforced any of its provisions since the Carter administration.
If corporations do better under a systems of fascism why is it corporations have been more successful here than in other parts of the world?
I understand that BEIC was a powerful company and they had a lot of sway in British gov, but my understanding of the events of the Boston Tea party was that the tea tax was the feather that broke the camels back. The colonists were tired of more taxes being added when they had no representation in the paliament.
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