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The fact that a rich understands economic better DOES NOT mean he will care about others.
Ok so he understand economics, what makes you think he will actually care about the poor?
Thats why its better for everyone to have a vote instead of a small intelectual elite.
Now if you are advocating a goverment in which good and smart ppl make the calls then thats a whole different story, but if it only takes IQ to vote then that is really really scary.

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This is going to sound weird, but it's true, and it's worth thinking about. No one cares about "the poor." No one person can even comprehend what "the poor" is, let alone have a valid emotional reaction to it. "The poor" is a statistic, a number encompassing billions of people. We don't have the mental capacity to know even a fraction of that many people on an emotional level that could be considered caring. This is demonstrably true; in the time that it has taken you to read this, I'd guess nearly a dozen people have died, some quite probably in horrible tragedies that have devastated their families. Do you care? Of course not. And it's a damn good thing too, because if human beings were wired to care every time a tragedy struck somewhere in a population of 6.5 billion, we'd all be mentally crippled. One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.

Actually caring about the poor means that you get up off your ass and do something about it. Liberals simply disguise the authorizing of a government to forcibly confiscate the property of the productive citizens and redistributing it to the unproductive as "caring for the poor."

Unproductivity is not in the best interests of the greater good; natural selection is.