Mining project in Valle de San Felix, Chile - Page 2

**leejo** · 12-11-2006, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Steeler

All people with whom you disagree are united in common cause to piss you off, leejo. It's time you knew that.

When the disagreement translates into a check I have to write, yes I do take it personally.

This is several responses to a post of mine in a row in which you have utterly dismissed and personalized my response, btw. Why not just post an eyeroll and "coo coo" while you're at it? What IS your point?

Steeler · 12-11-2006, 05:49 PM

Merely pointing out that this thread and the one you mention have little in common and the motivation of the posters therein are not required to be ideologically united.

**leejo** · 12-11-2006, 06:02 PM

Uh huh. What the two threads do have in common is the people who are interested in them.

Show me someone who is truly committed to "fixing" the growing wealth gap and I'll bet you $100 that the same person will be hostile to a mining project in Chile that destroys an idyllic pastoral lifestyle (living in huts) and causes unspecified ecological damage.

Red · 12-11-2006, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by leejo

When I read discussions like this right after reading a discussion about the growing wealth gap, I smile. It seems that whenever some villager is presented with the opportunity to move from the stone age to a 1700s European lifestyle, some endangered rat or a pristine glacier becomes much more important than fixing his wealth gap. I suppose the only environmentally-acceptable solution is for me to just write a check to the IRS. Doesn't help me or the villager but that's not really the point is it?

This is directly related to the wealth gap, the rich people get richer and the small people gets the badly needed jobs. Happens everyday everywhere in poor areas of developing countries.

I guess the small salaries are better than nothing when you unemployed but at what cost do you get your money you will be owned by the company and your enviroment will suffer.

And all for the migthy Dollar.

We constantly need to remind us that progress by any means is worse than no progress.

**leejo** · 12-11-2006, 06:21 PM

Well, you know when you live in a hut your qualifications are usually pretty limited. Also, I think it's unreasonable to expect people to move from pretty primitive living to SoHo walkups in a single generation. As you say, progress is progress.

Kerostasis · 12-11-2006, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by RedBane

This is directly related to the wealth gap, the rich people get richer and the small people gets the badly needed jobs. Happens everyday everywhere in poor areas of developing countries.

I guess the small salaries are better than nothing when you unemployed but at what cost do you get your money you will be owned by the company and your enviroment will suffer.

And all for the migthy Dollar.

We constantly need to remind us that progress by any means is worse than no progress.

In other words, if both rich people and poor people are getting richer, its still a bad thing as long as the rich are getting more than the poor. It would be better for them to both make NO money, and the poor to STAY poor, because at least then the rich aren't taking advantage of them. Right?

12-11-2006, 05:49 PM	#17 (permalink)
Steeler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Taxachusetts Age: 30 Posts: 2,952	Re: Mining project in Valle de San Felix, Chile Merely pointing out that this thread and the one you mention have little in common and the motivation of the posters therein are not required to be ideologically united. __________________

12-11-2006, 06:02 PM	#18 (permalink)
leejo Join Date: Sep 2003 Age: 39 Posts: 7,839	Re: Mining project in Valle de San Felix, Chile Uh huh. What the two threads do have in common is the people who are interested in them. Show me someone who is truly committed to "fixing" the growing wealth gap and I'll bet you $100 that the same person will be hostile to a mining project in Chile that destroys an idyllic pastoral lifestyle (living in huts) and causes unspecified ecological damage.

12-11-2006, 06:21 PM	#20 (permalink)
leejo Join Date: Sep 2003 Age: 39 Posts: 7,839	Re: Mining project in Valle de San Felix, Chile Well, you know when you live in a hut your qualifications are usually pretty limited. Also, I think it's unreasonable to expect people to move from pretty primitive living to SoHo walkups in a single generation. As you say, progress is progress.

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