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To summarize:
Power flowing from those who produce power goes to a few of the most powerful, and then those people use that power to accomplish one of two things:
1. The total measure of power increases
2. The total measure of power decreases
As a secondary concern the following 2 possibly results of moving power from those who create power to the few who then spend (or don't spend) that power:
1. The average person gains more power (benefits)
2. The average person loses more power (pays more cost)
I'm returning to the Real News Report
I returned, I tried to find Real numbers, and I didn't.
My guess is that the total measure of power has increased, but perhaps not much, the rate of increase is difficult to know, perhaps impossible, unless the power increase counts things like nuclear bombs, nuclear power plants, air craft carriers, bombs, missiles, and these things are then used, and then the result of their use is destruction, so total power actually goes down, not up, over time.
As a secondary consideration the shift of scarce power (a rate that may actually be negative and therefore power is becoming even more scarce) may be shifting more toward the few who use power to make power even more scarce, and the power shift may be moving away from a flow of power that ends up with power being used to increase power.
Since I don't read from the Socialism (involuntary) versus Capitalism (involuntary) script, my viewpoint may be difficult to understand, to someone who is caught up in that mire.
On to the next subject:
JAY: Okay. One more. Number 15: People in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries.
That is code, or double speak, for a measurable accounting of power production.
A. Where power is scarce people produce more power at a faster rate
B. Where power is abundant people produce more power at a faster rate
Why would anyone ask such a question? Is there a plan by which the process of producing more power at a faster rate is discovered and then emulated?
I will listen to find out why such a question constitutes Real News.
Some people have [incompr.] this idea and have tried to help them by providing small amount of credit. This is known as microcredit. Now, unfortunately, a lot of this microcredit is these days provided by glorified loan sharks, people charging 90, 100, 120 percent interest rate--can you believe it? But even the good guys do not really lift many people out of poverty, because they are on their own. They have a bit of money; that's it. I mean, if you really want to help these people, you need to give them training. If you want to, say, help--.
Wow, there it is, who can say it better?
If power is to be produced at a faster rate: then the people who can, will, and do, produce power at a faster rate will be the ones who get the credit needed to accomplish that specific goal, and then, having credit, they set about, and accomplish that goal, which is the goal of producing more power.
The good guys do not give themselves credit (120 percent interest) for doing nothing, so that method of taking credit, a cost, is no longer a cost, and the result is, without question, more power flowing to those who produce more power, causing the total supply of power to increase at a faster rate.
How simple can it get?
Why make that which is simple into that which is complicated? Why increase costs, whereby the cost increase does nothing to increase the benefit?
Who would do such a thing, what is the point of doing such a thing, as to increase costs, whereby the choice to increase costs, results in no increase in total power, whereby, the increase in cost results in less power produced?
What is the motive behind such a thing?
Why would someone willfully choose to set in motion actions that are designed to make sure that power production reduces, on purpose; who profits from such a power-less decision to expend power in the work of creating less power?