Comments by "Andrew Sainsbury" (@andyinsuffolk) on "Politics is all about power" video.

Politicians and idealogues are most definitely obsessed by wealth -- mostly other people's. Can politicians serve the interests of the wealthy & less-wealthy? Of course they can by following fundamemental democratic principles and pursuing political equality for all. If politicans cannot pursue the interests of rich & poor then how can they treat the short & tall, or those of varying intelligence or varying health equally. What Richard is talking about is the political desire to control wealth distribution -- mostly with good intention - but it is mostly counter-productive. It is up to the WHOLE democracy to define its redistributative culture, NOT the politicians who gamed the last election. The Scandinavian satisfaction in their attitude to wealth was not imposed centrally (well mostly :-).
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Political parties are tiny factional self-interest groups, modern-day aristocratic mafia families. Re-structuring our electoral system for their benefit has no democratic basis.
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@abody499 - As long as there's no coercion it is irrelevent whether wealth is generated individually. Wealth is an unlimited resource, some people can create more than others and its creation tends to boost the quality of life for all. As I said the obsession with other people's stuff/wealth is political/idelogical - it is a waste of effort that those who wish to rule prioritise - 'vote for me and I'll get the (wealthy) slaves to feed you'. Society grows mostly by the efforts of the wealth creators - they are providing the biggest slice of infrastructure and everything else.
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