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Find The Answers To The Following Questions: (Be Ready To Answer Them)
Find The Answers To The Following Questions: (Be Ready To Answer Them)
Find the answers to the following questions: (Be ready to answer them).
What does the word ‘wealth’ signify?
How many types of wealth does Professor Stoshkus single out?
Why and when did everyone rush to seize real wealth?
How was property distributed under a totalitarian regime?
What does Professor Stoshkus mean by ‘soviet bourgeoisie’?
How was the mentality of people shaped throughout the history?
Why have the foreign experts acknowledged Lithuania to be the most wasteful
post-communist country?
Discuss: ’…no authority is going to take responsibility for ruining the economy.’
Study some helpful statements and ideas. You may use them when you speak.
Wealth created and accumulated over decades expresses real power of the state.
Wealth is not abstract.
It embodies hard labour, creativity and wasted lives of people.
WEALTH BRINGS US POWER, FREEDOM, SLAVERY
People make wealth and wealth shapes people.
Most wealth empowers people and state but some types of wealth demoralise and
ruins them. The nature of wealth predetermines the nature of human beings.
Wealth gives you freedom:
you can buy anything you want
you can travel anywhere you want
you can have you hobbies
Wealth gives you power:
you can have influence on politics
you can bribe officials
you can pay the lawyers
Wealth gives you security.
you have the best health care
you can have a body-guard
you are sure about your future
Wealth brings you slavery.