I got a kind solicitation from a bot/person recently who wrote, of a fairly incoherent first draft of an ambitious recent post on this blahg:  

Would it be OK if I cross-posted this article to WriterBeat.com? Therev is no fee; I’m simply trying to add more content diversity for our community and thought this was insightful. I’ll be sure to give you complete credit as the author. If “OK” please let me know via email.

I visited the site, and read this insightful piece:

How to debate the subject of inequality with liberals

Of all the issues that separate liberals from conservatives, I’d argue inequality is the one where the two sides are the furthest apart on.  Typically liberals vent about the pay of corporate CEOs or bankers and compare their salaries to minimum wage workers, teachers or anyone that gets paid less.  Then they advocate for higher taxes on the rich or higher minimum wages as the means to fix inequality.  Conservatives usually counter with something along the lines of “the free market should decide what we make for what we do.”  Many than add “In America we promise equal opportunity not equality of outcome.”

If you’re a conservative, never say something like that!

It’s impossible to have equal opportunity for all.  The rich will send their children to the best schools, their children will then exit without the burden of debt and be handed a good paying job from a successful relative.  In other words, opportunity to succeed for the wealthy is bound to be far superior to the opportunity of success for the poor.

My advice to all Republicans/conservatives is to embrace inequality as being something completely healthy and natural within any capitalist system.  Only under socialist governance is the liberal dream of equality possible and we all know what socialism does to economic growth.  Of course liberals will counter by saying that “inequality has gotten worse” but they’ll fail to count the increase in food stamps, unemployment, housing assistance, EITC payments.   But now we’re into the weeds, stick with the concept that equality isn’t something to be celebrated and there is no such thing as equality of opportunity.

Good point, avoid the specifics and stick to the fact that some people just have to be brutally fucked so that others can have obscene wealth in a society whose laws are written by their paid hacks.   Made me hope Ari isn’t Jewish, reading this, though, his name suggests otherwise.   We Jews have enough trouble being a light unto the nations without this kind of insight.  (I’m only glad he didn’t get paid for the article).

I’m also hoping the philanthropic Sackler motherfuckers who have profited so handsomely from the opioid addiction/overdose crisis are not Jewish.  I guess I may have to read the rest of this article. 

Oh fuck:

Arthur and his brothers, the children of Jewish immigrants from Galicia and Poland, grew up in Brooklyn during the Depression

Oy yoy yoy…

In 1997, Arthur was posthumously inducted into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, and a citation praised his achievement in “bringing the full power of advertising and promotion to pharmaceutical marketing.” Allen Frances put it differently: “Most of the questionable practices that propelled the pharmaceutical industry into the scourge it is today can be attributed to Arthur Sackler.”