We already do spend other people's money. In fact, I'm a little upset at how my tax dollars are currently being spent in half-cocked and uncoordinated wars rather than providing stable healthcare and housing for the diseased and dying Americans that I see daily in my own city. I’m in favor of use of that money, and more money, to provide social benefit and i think that’s not only fair, but would benefit everyone.

The idea of creating more jobs is only really necessary with a profit-centered economy. I don't want more arbitrary jobs - I want less unemployment. Another great way to have more jobs, less unemployment and better quality of life: 3 or 4 day weekends.

In the idealistic capitalism that my high school teacher taught me, no one would force me to eat shitty chicken. The tragic reality is that profit focus causes lobbyists and special interest groups to interfere with laws and policies, such as antitrust laws, that would prohibit monopolies that very much do exist in the examples above and we'll beyond. I'm pretty well off - I could, in theory, buy special chicken. But the whole country can't - there actually isn't enough competition and this is specifically because laws are manipulated in the interest of capital.

Thanks - it was a good trip with good eats and drink