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Board Economics
Re: Solution to poverty - Socialism or Capitalism?
by
neofelis
on 06/06/2014, 00:57:11 UTC
"What does Paris Hilton produce?"

More than you might think. I think she has some perfume thing going on plus wherever she goes, people follow. I'm sure nightclub owners and restauranteurs enjoy her in their establishments.

Ok, she doesn't really contribute directly to the GDP,  but she is very effective at taking her family's wealth and distributing it around.  This is why in a generation or two, being a Hilton won't mean quite as much. Same thing as being a Kennedy or a Vanderbuilt today. Wealth gets distributed.  Few people have the talent to expand or even hold onto inherited wealth. It gets distributed to the economy as the generations pass.

To try and take it by using the force of government is wrong, immoral, and leads to tyranny.

IMHO