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Join contest SubscribeIf all that wealth is tied to the stock market and the market crashes those people aren't wealthy anymore. It's like people who hate on Jeff Bezos because he's the richest person on the planet. He doesnt actually have that money. It's tied to the value of Amazon. If Amazon ceases to exist Bezos doesn't retain any of that wealth. I think the wealth inequality story is kind of overblown. I think people's quality of life has gone down but that is more due to cycle of poverty and poor choices.
Down with the bourgeoisie, komrade. :-D
Horseshit.
Grow up.
It has nothing to do with that. Im just asking a simple question.
How much does anyone need.
Grow up.
It has nothing to do with that. Im just asking a simple question.
How much does anyone need.
It would be interesting to see the originator since it is not stated when I looked at it.
It would also be interesting to understand the point of the presentation.
Not sure I am following the logic.
- Is it that too much wealth is held by too few people?
- Is it to point out that the wealthiest 1% earn more wealth more quickly than ever?
- Is it to open the eyes to how many people are truly poor?
The richest people in America all started out with nothing, just regular Americans in college or business who clawed to the top by being good and having the opportunity to do so. That's America, where with an idea, ingenuity and follow through, you can do anything.
Take a look at the ten richest people in America. http://time.com/money/5095574/the-10-richest-people-in-america/ 1-8 are all self made, most of which in the last two decades. Bezos (Amazon), Gates (MS), Buffet (BH), Zuckerburg (Facebook), Page (Google), Ellison (Oracle), Brin (Google) Half are college dropouts and others like Bezos started their business in their garage who took their idea, worked their ass off, and are now richer than they could have ever imagined. They are also massive philanthropists who give away billions upon billions of their fortunes to major causes that benefit millions upon millions of people, or are funding major medical research to cure our worst diseases. Even if they kept every single cent, it's their business, not ours.
Only in America can that happen, the rest of the world can have their thievery and deceit in the name of "fairness". Wealth redistribution is theft, and wealth jealousy is pettiness.
A friend (smarter than me) once told me that if you took the nation's wealth and divided it up evenly, it would be back where it is today within a generation, if not sooner.
Only you can answer that for yourself. If you try to ask that for someone else and don't like their answer you might come to the conclusion it's ok to steal from them, which makes you a Democrat.Grow up.
It has nothing to do with that. Im just asking a simple question.
How much does anyone need.
Im just asking how much does any one need?
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Il add crony capitalism and things like big business lobbying for more regulation to keep the smaller companies and start ups outAs a business owner, I can tell you there only two hurdles between anyone and success. The first hurdle is the mentality of "I can't." The second hurdle is the government saying "you can't".
Im just asking how much does any one need?
The thing about the video is that it does nothing to discuss how America got to be in the position it is in now. The video invites a discussion about what the ideal distribution of wealth should be - which is to deny that it is what is now, and unless it is by force, it ain’t changing. What the video doesn’t do is take any one thing and make it dirt simple so people can begin to understand how we got here. Glass-Steagall would be a great one.
Big picture and crayon simple - you can not have an ever shrinking middle class that carries the biggest proportionate tax burden. At a certain point wherein there is too high of a concentration of poverty on one end of the scale, and too much wealth on the other - violence breaks out.
Guess what? Big picture thinkers in Gov policy circles know this. In fact, their counting on it. The Fed / Welfare System / Expansion of Consumer Credit + Women’s Lib / School Systems (surrogate parents) / the exportation of American manufacturing / the subsidization and build up of every 3rd world shit hole / an MSM that lies to you / Movies that lie to you / Government legalized propaganda via the MSM - all part of a plan.
Government is riddled with corrupt Politicians on the take or under the thumb + bureaucratic lifers in charge of fiefdom$$.
This is why Gov has a legal monopoly on force.
Removing the corruption gives everyone an equal shot.
Equal opportunity is not the same as equal outcomes.
A social order that depends on force, or on the threat of force, in order to function as intended, is morally bankrupt.
Greg
"Capitalism" in actual practice by the rich and powerful in this country is not what those usually morally defending it think it is.
You can't directly compare small individual owned business to massive multinational corporations and think small hard working business people operate on the same moral plane as the super rich who wind up trying to make a new law to themselves, where things such as crime, taxes, responsibilities don't matter, that's only for the little folks.
You can defend the ideal all you want, but it will go around in circles till you fully admit that what you have in this country is not actually Capitalism, but rather a big version of Monopoly, where the rich say they are capitalists, but actually are just working hard to win at monopoly at the expense of as many as possible while bribing the government to help them stay on top with your tax dollars.
Take a look at the banking system as a classic example... if you get in a tight spot, they want to take everything you have and leave you on the street and then hound you for more.... when they mess up... they get the government to give them open ended near interest free loans.
Even if you get more of an actual real Capitalist thing going on, you will eventually need hard limits on behavior and abilities so as to not wind up once again having someone gain enough wealth and then using it to make sure nobody else can get ahead.
Yes they all are.
The works of man are impermanent, imperfect, and not perfectible.
This is not a problem until we decide it's not a necessary fact.
Man is not perfectible, but there are folks around who insist man is perfectible, and insist that nothing will be allowed to rest until they achieve the task.
Such people are despots, and are a cancer in our midst.
Greg
It’s no ones place to decide what someone (ELSE) is entitled to have, through hard work and legal means.
Good post. Honcho. But there will be no removal of corruption because the corruption is from the top down. Like asking the police to 'police themselves', they gave a vested interest in NOT doing that.
Equal opportunity is not the same as equal outcomes.
How much does anyone need.
"How much dose anyone need". Where have I heard this before??????? Now I remember, the left uses questions like this all the time, its called class warfare. A very similar question the left likes too ask is "Who needs an AR15", " who needs 30 round magazines", "who needs an assault weapon"? Thankfully I live in a country where I can have what I want. Its called freedom. It would suck to live someplace where you only got what you need.