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Post by NadegdaTime to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
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Post by Nadegdahttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-
american-aristocracy/559130/
Need more specific information before I decide whether it's worth my
time or not.
Let's see ... wealth inequality ... the coming revolution and/or civil
war ... what we might do about it all ...
As members of the 9.9 percent it behooves us both to read it ... kensi,
too.
Way too verbose, as if the author was getting paid by the word. I did
manage to get about a third of the way through it. I make no apologies
if I barely manage to make it into the 9.9%. I've worked pretty damned
hard all my life, starting in my early teens, working weekends, summers
and whenever the opportunity presented itself. I still work a lot harder
today than anyone else I know my age.
I'll never be a .1 persenter, and I don't have an overwhelming urge to
even try. I consider that unobtainable and unnecessary at my age. I
live modestly, and have always been thrifty with what I do have. I
strongly resent the unbridled greed of the ultra rich when they use their
wealth and power to corrupt a system that was meant, in theory at least,
to be fair... oppressing the 90% (mostly), but they've already bought the
Government. How much money does anyone really need to be comfortable?
It's more like a game to them. Inequality exists in many ways. Some of
it is just the luck of the draw, some of it is poor decisions and an
inadequate work ethic by those same 90 percenters. Those who can least
afford it, get exploited the most (Payday loans, etc.)
I guess I never got to the crux of the article, and how the author
proposes to "fix" things. Knowing you, I'm guessing it's some form of
Socialism, but that's a very slippery slope. If it involves a
revolution, I doubt that many in the 9.9% group are down for that. We're
allowed to be kept comfortably numb. Anything that upsets the apple cart
is likely to make my life less comfortable, and I feel no guilt with my
current status. I'm certainly not what I would consider "wealthy" by any
means. If the shit does end up hitting the fan, I'll have no sympathy
for the greedy pigs at the top, but they already have the finest
protection money can buy. I don't know how such an endeavor would play
out, but civil wars tend to be very messy indeed.
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