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re: English Assignment regarding wealth disparity
Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:14 pm to mmmmmbeeer
Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:14 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Yes! My favorite type of thread on TD, when baws from one of the poorest states in the union carry water for incredibly wealthy people.
My career is directly tied to one of the wealthiest people in the United States, Jeff Bezos.
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Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:14 pm to SallysHuman
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Do you think it is possible for a person to have too much money or wealth?
"My name is Billy.
Obviously my pinko commie teacher makes too much money if this sort of brain rot filth is what she is foisting on impressionable kids. It would likely be less damaging if she sent me pictures of her funbags and let me play with her no no hole. Then I can report her and become a millionaire.."
Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:16 pm to bad93ex
so you drive a delivery truck for Amazon?...
Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:19 pm to bad93ex
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America has declined as the median incomes have declined. Small towns sucked dry by all the capital going to corporate chain shareholders in Manhattan and ever increasing amounts of lower class people in low wage jobs in decaying neighborhoods.
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Do you believe that has anything to do with manufacturing jobs leaving the country?
Absolutely! Corporatiions increasing payouts to their wealthiest shareholders by offshoring manufacturing jobs.
Chain stores replacing small businesses that used to provide middle class jobs for owners.
Etc etc etc
These are all the modes by which the middle class has been squeezed into ever more vast fortunes for the few. And there's not less money being made, just more and more finds its way into the hands of the wealthiest.
It's not a moral or ethical problem as much as a common sense answer to what's going wrong.
What everyone is really upset about but often falling for scapegoats instead of the blaringly obvious economic dynamic behind it.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:20 pm to farad
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so you drive a delivery truck for Amazon?...
Amazon has created a lot of new millionaires and I'd say 90%+ of the United States unknowingly uses it daily.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 8/15/25 at 4:56 pm to StringedInstruments
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How is this a problematic question?
It sort of depends on age. I do think this part makes the assumption that too few have too much. You shouldn’t necessarily start with that premise, IMO, depending on the age of the students. Younger kids likely don’t think the have the right to argue against the prompt.
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Think about what it means when so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 5:04 pm to StringedInstruments
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Of course, this presumes the teacher is teaching them how to argue, how to communicate, etc. All we have is the prompt.
Sadly, unless the parents are really making sure their kid is doing the research properly, the kids are likely just going to regurgitate whatever ChatGPT gives them.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 5:06 pm to SallysHuman
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28 million Americans will be millionaires
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Think about what it means when so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people.
According to the Fed about 18% of American households had a 7 figure net worth. Basically 1 in 5.
Find me another nation with that high of a percentage of wealthy households. Not everyone can be wealthy. If everyone was a millionaire, then people making 500k would be poor. And 18% of Americans would be billionaires. But purchasing power would be way down. The only way equality occurs is when everyone is poor. The United States is as close as you can get to everyone being “wealthy” in relative terms. Our poor live in homes larger than middle class European homes. Our poor drive full size sedans, some even have V8 SUVs even if they’re high mileage. Only like 5% of the UK has central AC in their home and that’s a “wealthy developed nation”. How many “poor” in the US have AC? A lot more than 5%
We have it made here. Most don’t even realize how good we have it
Posted on 8/15/25 at 5:09 pm to SallysHuman
do poor people generate wealth for other poor people? No
do rich people generate wealth for poor people? Yes
do rich people generate wealth for poor people? Yes
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 8/15/25 at 5:10 pm to SallysHuman
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Think about what it means when so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people. Do you think it is possible for a person to have too much money or wealth?
People that think this way are nothing more than dumb, low-quality morons driven by jealousy and willful ignorance. They are poorly educated on basic economics, and in a more fair worl would be banned from teaching as well as the voting booth.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 5:54 pm to SallysHuman
It's why you never discuss your salary with coworkers. I read there was a poll that asked people if they got a raise, but found out their coworker got a higher raise, what would their reaction be? Something like 80% said "Neither should get a raise".
This assignment is posing a leading question and would be objected in a court of law.
Get rid of the first sentence, "usually" might as well be "I feel".
The question should be something like "Present an argument for and against the accumulation of wealth, and explain why you side with one, the other, or remain indifferent."
This assignment is posing a leading question and would be objected in a court of law.
Get rid of the first sentence, "usually" might as well be "I feel".
The question should be something like "Present an argument for and against the accumulation of wealth, and explain why you side with one, the other, or remain indifferent."
Posted on 8/15/25 at 6:11 pm to SallysHuman
quote:public school is gross
This is a discussion prompt from my son's English class.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 8/15/25 at 6:11 pm to bad93ex
Yeah. Things change.
Commie Bernie curses all he promotes.
Commie Bernie curses all he promotes.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 6:25 pm to liz18lsu
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This assignment is posing a leading question and would be objected in a court of law.
The question posed:
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Do you think it is possible for a person to have too much money or wealth?
Not nearly enough suggestion of an answer to get a sustained objection. Obviously the previous statements leading up to the question would be considered testifying.
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The question should be something like "Present an argument for and against the accumulation of wealth, and explain why you side with one, the other, or remain indifferent."
The problem with that query is it isn't what is being ask. What is being ask is whether high concentrations of wealth are bad.
Anyone that has ever participated in classical debate is used to seeing resolutions just like this.
In debate you are given a resolution. It can be fact, policy, value et al based. You have to develop an affirmative and negative stance and be ready to argue them both. All debate resolutions are "leading" in your evaluation, it is just the way it works. The question posed is far less of a statement than normal for debate because the answer is not implicit.
I have no issue making and argument in the affirmative or negative here but I spent 10 years in debate and a lifetime making arguments in court that did not align with my personal feelings.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 8:24 pm to deltaland
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According to the Fed about 18% of American households had a 7 figure net worth. Basically 1 in 5.
It's clear to everyone on any side of any argument about wealth that America has a lot more rich and very well to do people.
The root of the problems everyone -- MAGA to the left, --- are constantly talking about and actually overlap on are not that people don't get rich in America but:
The country was a lot better when a much higher percentage of the population was clustered around the median income range.
That's what made small town, suburban America idyllic instead of vast stretches of depressing wasteland with some wealthy gated communities.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 9:12 pm to SallysHuman
28 million?
That 7 Louisiana’s.
FWIW there are 7 black billionaires.
Are they horrible people too?
That 7 Louisiana’s.
FWIW there are 7 black billionaires.
Are they horrible people too?
Posted on 8/15/25 at 9:20 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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mmmmmbeeer
You are a barely functioning retard, aren't you? Do you have to be reminded to go to the bathroom?
Still having fantasies about guys creampieing your daughter?
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 8/15/25 at 9:25 pm to SallysHuman
I’ve worked, educated myself, sacrificed, and delayed gratification to get where I am. All these feel good liberal communists can all frick off.
Wealth disparity happens because most people are lazy fricks. How’s that for an English assignment?
Wealth disparity happens because most people are lazy fricks. How’s that for an English assignment?
Posted on 8/15/25 at 9:27 pm to SallysHuman
If you don't want your kid learning to think, just home school him.
Posted on 8/15/25 at 10:33 pm to SallysHuman
Have him write about how this country was built on the willpower of those who desired for more for their lives and that real disparity of the American society is the inverse relationship of willpower to entitlement.
End it with the open question of: How can we build a better world together with an outstretched hand when the foundation of our future is truly built within?
End it with the open question of: How can we build a better world together with an outstretched hand when the foundation of our future is truly built within?
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