Don’t agree with the writer on much of this. I think he is completely failing to see that the world is a different place these days.
We don’t have the option anymore to go out and stake a claim over 500 acres of unclaimed land for free. Even the poor people in this country do indeed get support from the infrastructure that exists around them in countless ways. Standards of material comfort and capabilities that were beyond the richest of previous centuries are within the grasp of the bulk of America’s population today. Those who become successful should indeed contribute heavily towards the next generation’s infrastructure, just as was done before them.
Don’t agree with the writer on much of this. I think he is completely failing to see that the world is a different place these days.
We don’t have the option anymore to go out and stake a claim over 500 acres of unclaimed land for free. Even the poor people in this country do indeed get support from the infrastructure that exists around them in countless ways. Standards of material comfort and capabilities that were beyond the richest of previous centuries are within the grasp of the bulk of America’s population today. Those who become successful should indeed contribute heavily towards the next generation’s infrastructure, just as was done before them.
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