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Tim – just to share a few thoughts.
Capitalism is by it’s nature ‘unfair’ but has the great advantage, like natural selection, of being efficient at organizing group effort to increase general living standards in our society. However (yes you knew that was coming) when the winners in the system absence themselves by abusing self awarded executive pay and using tax havens the very nature of the ‘free market’ looses credibility and ceases to work.
I am sure you enjoy your role as cheer leader for the rich and powerful but please do not be totally blind to these blatant excesses in an otherwise very productive system. We all gain from a healthy free market system but there is something deeply unattractive when the people at the top spit on those at the bottom of the heap.