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06-01-2020 #11
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06-01-2020 #12
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Re: Oil Price and Politics
Haha -but, look at this way: not one of the men who acquired Russia's oil and gas assets knew about oil and gas or cared, they just knew it gave them access to billions of dollars. Same with the other industries, and in many cases, the men concerned had been part of the Soviet Union's apparatus and had a front-row seat at the auction. I understand that Khodorkovsky wanted to enter politics to offer something different from, maybe even more democratic than Putin, that is not the point.
There is an obvious comparison with an obvious question: does Bill Gates know anything about computing? Does George Soros know how money markets operate? Neither of them emerged from a rich family with an inheritance to spend, neither of them had their business handed to them at bargain basement prices by the Federal Government.
What is so stunning about the Oigarchs in Russa and the Ukraine is their lack of achievement, and their stunning indiffefrence to the men and women who built those countries and its assets; the wealth from which they shipped out to foreign banks -that so many were either communists in their youth or relied on Cmmunists for their wealth is the savage process that attended the last days of an experiment that began in October 1917, even if the Revolution and its consequences is now judged to have been a failure.
Wittgenstein, a man with little interest in wealth and possessons, once recommended to a student the parable by Tolstoy, 'How much land does a man require?'. It sums up the craven greed of men who have taken so much out of the country into which they have returned so little.
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