STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 27 December 2012

[Warpy]

44. The aristocratic 1% has always held the human race back

if only by insisting that wealth and craftsmanship be devoted to producing useless, beautiful articles to collect and show off to other 1% grabbers.

Nothing is left over to devote to the practical, the things that make life better for so many.

The best day's work Stalin ever did was sell those treasures to the west's 1% grabbers in order to finance industrialization and bring his people out of peonage. Unfortunately, the rest of his planning fell short in part to his own hamfistedness and in part due to things beyond his control, like Hitler and poor harvests due to bad weather.

All things like this need to be in museums, IMO, since they were all purchased with human misery in the bottom 99% and it's those people who should be allowed to enjoy them, not just a few rich fools.