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This can be turned around. For months Fox News blamed teachers and teacher unions for the problems of the economy and all the mindless watchers started to agree. The people wanted teachers to lose their right to collective bargaining and pensions. As you pointed out -- wanting teachers to lose these things because you learned that you do not have them seems much more like envy than neutral efficiency analysis.

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I think very much on topic, and an excellent commentary.

What rich people have done is compel other people to not work for free and extract a portion of the value-added that they have produced.

When you liquidate the social capital that has been built up, the few who liquidate it can become wealthy, but everyone else becomes poorer, and then the safety-net of civil society provided by the social capital is gone.

That is when the poor don't just raid the rich, they eat them because the rich have left them with nothing else.

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