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Wealth Inequality in America, Perception vs Reality
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| Salegon |
Interesting video.
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| and yet the poor in america are still better off than a bajillion % of the rest of the world's populace. |
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| Lagrangian |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
and yet the poor in america are still better off than a bajillion % of the rest of the world's populace. |
this. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
and yet the poor in america are still better off than a bajillion % of the rest of the world's populace. |
While true, it's still mesmerizing how one of the premiere nations for supposedly free elections can perpetuate an entirely cultural phenomenon of the broadest and lowest classes repeatedly voting for representatives entirely counter to their own self interests. |
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| Trance-MB |
| Over here the rich pay most taxes (higher %), I can't believe it's the other way around in the U.S., but I know it is. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| "Job Creators" |
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| Lagrangian |
armchair politics. |
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| OrangestO |
I typed a long response to that video and deleted it after taking into consideration the time I'd waste arguing back and forth on here.
I no have energy. I is 99 percent.
Back to work :whip: |
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| Bierheld |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
While true, it's still mesmerizing how one of the premiere nations for supposedly free elections can perpetuate an entirely cultural phenomenon of the broadest and lowest classes repeatedly voting for representatives entirely counter to their own self interests. |
Although it's telling that in the land of the dream people's ideas on a proper meritocratic system of income equality in no way correlates to what is actually happening, I can't help but feel it's really a marginal quibble. The most shocking aspect is still the accumulation of wealth towards the super-rich. You can wonder if that's something that can even be stopped at all anymore by any form of government, democratic or not. It must have been in existence for a long time, even from before the feudal era, and to this day were there's still no hope of there being any national or supranational form of governing to regulate the offshore industry. They will always find a place, there always seems to be a way. |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
and yet the poor in america are still better off than a bajillion % of the rest of the world's populace. |
You're right, as long as you don't really mean "so nothing's wrong because there are people EVEN WORSE off". |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by FuzzQi
You're right, as long as you don't really mean "so nothing's wrong because there are people EVEN WORSE off". |
Nah that’s not what I’m saying. i’m saying that inequality per se isn’t necessarily a great evil- if the poor can house, clothe and feed themselves then that’s still pretty great. |
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