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re: When did being rich become a bad thing?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:54 pm to HoopyD
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:54 pm to HoopyD
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Wealth used to be a measure of success; something to aspire to. Now it's portrayed as evil and out of touch. Heck, even Bernie Sanders is now taking fire because he may be a millionaire. Oh the shame!
Sanders is being targeted for not mapping to a non-existent requirement. He never said we should all be poor or have the same.
As for point one, the economy, the tax code and regulations can be evaluated by how many there are in jail.
The bottom quarter of the class of 2020 won't make it.
We do not need them.
We have automatons in factories, illegals, smart people.
This post was edited on 4/10/19 at 6:55 pm
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Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:58 pm to CelticDog
If humanity is to progress beyond the stars, our focus should be great deeds, not great wealth.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:00 pm to HoopyD
Once Marxism infiltrated our institutions
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:02 pm to HoopyD
when democrats discovered envy gets them votes
Of course they are bought and paid for by the richest people alive.
Of course they are bought and paid for by the richest people alive.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:02 pm to cr32pll29
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When 0.01 percent of the population control over 80% of the re4sources of a nation,
Such a simpleton argument
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:04 pm to cr32pll29
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they are too enamored of their myths, free markets, free trade will solve everything magically.
Nah, if you were academically inclined you would understand it's based on solid evidence
Economics.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:06 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Such a simpleton argument
It is simple, but... is it not true?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:11 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Economics is full of fraud and lies, they make it complex sounding on purpose, so common people can not examine it effectively.
Remember that nation early in the 20th century that defied economic orthodoxy to skyrocket past everybody else from the very bottom of the pile, only to be destroyed a few years later by a jealous world.
Remember that nation early in the 20th century that defied economic orthodoxy to skyrocket past everybody else from the very bottom of the pile, only to be destroyed a few years later by a jealous world.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:14 pm to cr32pll29
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Economics is full of fraud and lies
Ive noticed a trend with you class warfare lefties, you really hate the academics of economics
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:16 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I am not a leftie, and I am not a right winger either, I am a third positionist.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:16 pm to cr32pll29
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It is simple, but... is it not true?
A big part of the issue is that marxists are convinced that the rich take away opportunity from the poor, that it's a zero sum game
It's not.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:17 pm to Ace Midnight
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If anything, we have a democratization of wealth. America is home to almost 16 million millionaires. 90% or so in the $1 to $5 million range.
That's 1 in 20 folks. Sure, we have the super rich (who have always been with us) and they're highly visible (ditto). The class warfare to demonize those folks has never paused since the Communist Manifesto took root with the radicals and political left in the mid 19th Century.
14.8 millionaire households and the statistics include the value of a home. nearly 1.5 million of those households are in california or new york. 1 in 20 sounds about right.
but 34 percent of the wealth in "affluent" households was in their primary residence
This post was edited on 4/10/19 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:18 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Ive noticed a trend with you class warfare lefties
I do not want class warfare, I want all good people to to pull together to make a better future for all.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:22 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I despise marx, i think he was full of shite, but laissez faire capitalism leads to rule by oligarchs, we need to find another way.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:23 pm to cr32pll29
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I despise marx, i think he was full of shite, but laissez faire capitalism leads to rule by oligarchs, we need to find another way.
leads to a plutocracy. but the powerful or lucky or privileged have always been the pack leader.. you're fighting against human nature
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:27 pm to bmy
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leads to a plutocracy. but the powerful or lucky or privileged have always been the pack leader.. you're fighting against human nature
I agree, what do you think of that experiment that a certain northern european nation did during the first half of the last century, I think that it was a total succes, and should be a model for all of us.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:28 pm to cr32pll29
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but laissez faire capitalism leads to rule by oligarchs,
Nah.
The current system does which is a hybrid, cozy relation between govt and industry
A true free market system would have more cottage industry and less corporations, which are a government created entity.
Government "printing" money, manipulating the economy and being cozy with corporations has created disparity and allowed people to become wealthy on paper.
This post was edited on 4/10/19 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:31 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Nah.
Are you ignoring reality? because it is quite clear that we are ruled by a few super wealthy ones.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:32 pm to Ebbandflow
quote:Would you like a 25% pay increase?
it gets a little ridiculous and the disparity becomes too much across-the-board
How about if everyone else received the same?
Congrats! You just contributed to the great wealth disparity.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 7:34 pm to cr32pll29
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because it is quite clear that we are ruled by a few super wealthy ones.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
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