>This is not an accurate estimate of the world situation.  Comparing the
richest and the poorest does not address the average nor does it address
actual income from gorss or net income.

If 10 people are making 10 dollars a year, the average is 10 dollars a person.
If 1 person "capitalizes", their income increases and the 9 other decreases.
That person makes 93 dollars and the rest make 1 dollar.
The average income is now 10.2 dollars(it improved!) but the condition of
them, as a group, is worst.

>In some nations, a very small net income is all that is needed; the state
may provide so many other services that gross income is cut down by
taxation

What?  Are you talking about Norway?

>Income is not necessarily the only indicator differentiating capitalism
form socialism.

of course it ain't.

> domestic protectionist policies by the developed economies!  However,
reasons for growth include the globalization of the market economy, improved
education and access to technology.

Yes, more freedoms which you cannot afford.  GREAT!

_____________________
Memory of the Dead

the freedom to buy things you can never afford
the freedom for indians to buy corn that once flourished overgrown in their
backyards
the freedom to die of curable disease
the freedom to watch their children's stomachs swell and burst
the freedom to starve and die
without land
or liberty
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a small bit of a poem by Zack de la Rocha

Milutin

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What we don't know keeps tha contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books, they just remove 'em