Rob Kall: Hm. Okay, how bout Occupy Wall Street, do you have a take on that?
M.E. Thomas: I didn't really understand Occupy Wall Street. Well I, I especially didn't understand how the ninety nine percent hates the one percent, I don't get that.
Rob Kall: Okay. Probably because of injustice, because the one percent are parasites. And they take more than their share.
M.E. Thomas: Yeah, okay, injustice, parasites. Yeah they definitely, they I would say they're parasites. I don't know if, and this kind of just depends on, on what what you think the one percent is. I guess I, first of all I don't know, I don't understand this idea of fair share. To me, what is your fair share? I don't know. Nothing? Everything? Fifty percent? Should it, should it be we just divide it up, I don't I don't have the same sort of feelings that something is or is not fair.
But the one percent in my mind, if we have structured the game of capitalism a particular way, these people just happen to be the winners. And a lot of it could be because they just got lucky. Right? But we all, in a way buy our sort of lottery tickets by engaging with the world, and getting a job, and trying to start our own businesses. And we could also get lucky, and luck is always going to play a role in things.
But I guess people think that wealth, one you have wealth, if you have it through like third and fourth generations, and people just keep holding on to it, that's when people become a parasite?
Rob Kall: Not necessarily, it's a whole conversation, I've done interviews on this whole idea that, you know, nobody is successful on their own. In America they're successful because there's a legal system that protects them, things that the people built, an educational system that creates the workers, and what have you. That whole thing. But, but lets move on. What do you think about democracy?
M.E. Thomas: I guess I'm sort of Winston Churhillian about it, in terms of democracy is the best because the other solutions are so much worse. I mean right, right now we don't have really a democracy so much as we have a republic. And I think that's pretty efficient, especially for as large of a country as we are. I get really suspicious as a libertarian whenever there's any sort of government intervention, because I just don't understand, I personally just don't understand how people can be so sure of themselves. That this is the right thing to do, and I know enough about economics to understand that there are frequently perverse consequences to things that we do, where we think that we're doing something that's going to fix something, and then it ends up making something else worse.
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