01-04-2017, 11:49 PM
(12-31-2016, 02:08 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Ha ha. Billionaires are extreme right wing, and Trump is in no way "productive" lol
He's not going to tax his fellow ruling-class members. I wouldn't bet on it.
Donald Trump makes his money the easiest way possible short of simply lending it to an institution or overt theft: leasing high-end property to a captive market in places with a permanent shortage of housing. By setting a price high enough and the only tenants that one will get are those who won't even be slow to pay. It's not like the high-end fashion business in which six-month-old styles are already obsolete, like production of scripted screen entertainment which requires a meeting of visual and literary art that few people can do well singly, like high-tech businesses in which software and components are obsolete almost before they are released, or the auto industry in which every component must be freshly engineered every couple of years at a reasonable cost. Retail bankers must choose their borrowers based upon complicated formulas so that they avoi8d getting conned for uncollectable loans that charming grifters can get. That's before I mention such professions as law, medicine, architecture, engineering, research science, accountancy, and college-level academia in which a participant needs a nimble mind.
He is a rentier; he invests with the expectation of a steady stream of income larger than some imputed interest rate o0nce he has a project built. He fails to understand how complex reality can be for, for example, a school teacher, social worker, registered nurse, police officer, or store manager.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.