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All three men left us models of distribution. Jesus was more about spiritual transformation, but he still spoke enough about society and attitudes to constitute a model of distribution. Marx worked a top down model and he sought to balance the wealth as well as distribution.
Plato worked with the institutions that were already in place... democracy. This was not a democracy of all the people, it was a democracy of the ruling class. Plato sought to balance the earnings between the ruling class and the laboring class. A Platonic corporation would limit the CEO earnings to 6x the average wage of those laboring for the same corporation. Imagine the different world that would set up.
Marx wanted to eliminate the ruling class altogether. His corporations would have no CEO or would pay the CEO the same as the laborers. I'm not sure how anyone would become a CEO in that type of model. Everyone who has tried to achieve the Marx model in the real world can not overcome the leaderless factor in his model. Consequently, so-called communist nations end up being the most imbalanced models of distribution and wealth on the planet. Right now, the nation with the most billionaires is China, and they are all members of the Communist Party and ruling class in China.
Jesus is supposed to return and set up a kingdom where the ruling class is composed of the saints raised from the dead, so they have no need for wealth. Jesus model achieves the objectives of the Marx model and he gets there by exterminating the prevailing ruling class; which, would include those billionaires ruling over China as well as the billionaires ruling over America. Any billionaire who says he is a communist or a Christian is pulling your leg, billionaires are capitalists, cunning, and ruthless, and have no desire to be balanced with those laboring for them.
Social constructs are all about the money. Native Americans have the correct perspective on this short life; we come from the land, we return to the land, the land owns us, no one owns the land. Men are free, no man can own another man. But governments seek to restrict freedom, in order to maintain a cohesive society. Everyone wants a safe and happy existence but man is not safe or happy when distribution models allow for the 1% at the top to own everything and make slaves of the labor force.
When change only comes through force ... revolution and war ... the problem is leadership. The kind of people that foment revolution are not the kind of people who care about fair distribution models. So the leaders of revolts are more apt to set up the same problem they revolted against - only this time with them in power - than they ever come close to fixing the social ills they fought against. Meet the new boss - worse than the old boss.
We teach our best and brightest to become monsters ... go for the money. And the ones that "succeed" are the ones that take the most from the pie for themselves. Capitalism keeps tilting toward tyranny; the imbalance of wealth only becomes more and more tilted in favor of the tyrants until the inevitable revolution. And the revolution yields the same problem all over again. Civilization - in the past 6000 years - has not figured out a workable model of distribution, let alone how to get there.
Christians keep thinking that Christ will return and fix it all. But the scriptures say that we are the anointing, we are the appearing, we are the presence, the parousia of Christ, that Christ is returning in us. Maybe it is time we started thinking about the problem as if we were capable of solving it?
Plato worked with the institutions that were already in place... democracy. This was not a democracy of all the people, it was a democracy of the ruling class. Plato sought to balance the earnings between the ruling class and the laboring class. A Platonic corporation would limit the CEO earnings to 6x the average wage of those laboring for the same corporation. Imagine the different world that would set up.
Marx wanted to eliminate the ruling class altogether. His corporations would have no CEO or would pay the CEO the same as the laborers. I'm not sure how anyone would become a CEO in that type of model. Everyone who has tried to achieve the Marx model in the real world can not overcome the leaderless factor in his model. Consequently, so-called communist nations end up being the most imbalanced models of distribution and wealth on the planet. Right now, the nation with the most billionaires is China, and they are all members of the Communist Party and ruling class in China.
Jesus is supposed to return and set up a kingdom where the ruling class is composed of the saints raised from the dead, so they have no need for wealth. Jesus model achieves the objectives of the Marx model and he gets there by exterminating the prevailing ruling class; which, would include those billionaires ruling over China as well as the billionaires ruling over America. Any billionaire who says he is a communist or a Christian is pulling your leg, billionaires are capitalists, cunning, and ruthless, and have no desire to be balanced with those laboring for them.
Social constructs are all about the money. Native Americans have the correct perspective on this short life; we come from the land, we return to the land, the land owns us, no one owns the land. Men are free, no man can own another man. But governments seek to restrict freedom, in order to maintain a cohesive society. Everyone wants a safe and happy existence but man is not safe or happy when distribution models allow for the 1% at the top to own everything and make slaves of the labor force.
When change only comes through force ... revolution and war ... the problem is leadership. The kind of people that foment revolution are not the kind of people who care about fair distribution models. So the leaders of revolts are more apt to set up the same problem they revolted against - only this time with them in power - than they ever come close to fixing the social ills they fought against. Meet the new boss - worse than the old boss.
We teach our best and brightest to become monsters ... go for the money. And the ones that "succeed" are the ones that take the most from the pie for themselves. Capitalism keeps tilting toward tyranny; the imbalance of wealth only becomes more and more tilted in favor of the tyrants until the inevitable revolution. And the revolution yields the same problem all over again. Civilization - in the past 6000 years - has not figured out a workable model of distribution, let alone how to get there.
Christians keep thinking that Christ will return and fix it all. But the scriptures say that we are the anointing, we are the appearing, we are the presence, the parousia of Christ, that Christ is returning in us. Maybe it is time we started thinking about the problem as if we were capable of solving it?