Based on what? Im not sure I agree with you. With money it usually is--I buy, you sell. In war it seems like it is--Hitler took power from the Jews, we took power from Hitler and Japan. Now China is taking financial power from us.
Once again, incorrect. Try reading Ayn Rand sometime. Specifically:
"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.
"Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-- as, I think, he will.
Money is but one manifestation of power. But as Francisco's "money speech" also states, the power of the MIND is the ultimate power. There are instances in which a true "win-win" situation can exist, and the expansion of money, power, what have you--is limited only by our will and our imagination; hence, our minds.
