Super rich are $300 billion lighter

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Posted by Barack5 on Oct-01-2009 03:59:

Super rich are $300 billion lighter

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The financial crisis cut the net worth of the nation's 400 most wealthy individuals to $1.27 trillion this year, according to published list.

I would not even call the Obama administration progressive or interested in money distribution. Some call it that.

This is a good deal for us middle class folks. Obama says he would prefer to spread the wealth around.

It's interesting the way they would go about it.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/new...019[URL]http://

Posted by Clovis on Oct-01-2009 23:52:

Oh the humanity

Posted by ziptnf on Oct-02-2009 00:28:

Should be more.

Posted by Comrade Stalin on Oct-02-2009 01:29:

The value of their holdings may be down but the top 1% still own the bottom 95%.

Posted by Capitalizt on Oct-02-2009 06:29:

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
The value of their holdings may be down but the top 1% still own the bottom 95%.

Except the wealth pie isn't static, so stats like this are utterly meaningless.

Posted by Comrade Stalin on Oct-02-2009 18:34:

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Originally posted by Capitalizt
Except the wealth pie isn't static, so stats like this are utterly meaningless.

Wealth gap

Posted by Darkarbiter on Nov-06-2009 05:48:

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
Wealth gap

What about the wealth gap under stalinism and the rampant corruption :P

Also doesn't that figure also sortof depend on how many ceo's there are. Just because there are less companies around so they ceo's get payed a bit more doesn't make workers worse off. Number of CEO's in that graph and test conditions (is there a minimum size of a company for a ceo to be concidere a ceo?) are required to be able to judge this effectively.

Posted by Comrade Stalin on Nov-06-2009 18:20:

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter
What about the wealth gap under stalinism and the rampant corruption :P

I created a classless society you capitalist pig! My NKVD will re-educate you.

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Also doesn't that figure also sortof depend on how many ceo's there are. Just because there are less companies around so they ceo's get payed a bit more doesn't make workers worse off. Number of CEO's in that graph and test conditions (is there a minimum size of a company for a ceo to be concidere a ceo?) are required to be able to judge this effectively.

So are you implying there is no increasing wealth gap? I didn't conduct the study, so I am not the one to ask about how the study was done. Nonetheless, I think the study was well done, conducted with academic diligence.

Posted by Darkarbiter on Nov-06-2009 21:55:

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
I created a classless society you capitalist pig! My NKVD will re-educate you.

Well your NKVD already killed the guy in my avatar (I bet you don't event know who he is

and it's abundantly clear from my arguments that I'm neither capitalist nor a pig. Unless ofcourse you're one of those anarchists who think's the POUM were "fascists in disuguise"

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
So are you implying there is no increasing wealth gap? I didn't conduct the study, so I am not the one to ask about how the study was done. Nonetheless, I think the study was well done, conducted with academic diligence.

Well I'm not sure, I'm just unsure of the interpretation of statistics so something like that I'm wary of.

Posted by Lira on Nov-07-2009 15:12:

How on Earth...? Oh, well, if you're not a bot, please reply to this message and say something about Uzbekistan that makes sense. If you ignore this message and continue posting, I'm going to conclude you're indeed a bot.

Posted by Barack7 on Nov-16-2009 18:23:

youre a fucking laijsoir ealnsfd fso in bgj;alk