We're not third-world. Not by a long shot. Even the poor in America have flat-screen TVs, air conditioned homes, microwaves and automobiles. Compared to a blind leper in Bangladesh sitting in the mud begging for alms, they are inconceivably wealthy. It's all a matter of context. If everybody in America was making sixty grand a year, there would still be one percent making six billion a year, and the cost of living would rise so that sixty grand only buys a middle-class lifestyle. That's why they are called the "middle class." There will always be economic stratification, it's inevitable and inescapable. Every single attempt to level income/wealth ever attempted has ended in two things: universal poverty and privation and large-scale genocide.rEvolutionist wrote:This shows a stunning lack of scope, and basic knowledge. You are happy to compare yourself to 3rd world nations? Well done.Seth wrote:Strangely, income inequality is quite low in the US, because 99 percent of people are about the same income-wise. We have almost no totally destitute people, as compared to India or even Mexico, and even with 15 percent unemployment 85 percent of people are employed.
That's what you fucking socialists can't get through your thick skulls, people don't want to be economically leveled with their neighbors, they want to do better than the neighbors.
Nitpicking pettifoggery.
And 15% unemployment DOESN'T mean 85% employment. You're smarter than that.
What all you pathetic, greedy, jealous progressive jackasses are complaining about is that a minuscule one percent of the population is very wealthy.
And you think seizing and redistributing all the wealth in the hands of the 1% will fix that? You're too fucking stupid to live. You could take every dime the top 1% have and pass it out to everyone and it wouldn't do more than buy a nice meal and maybe a movie, then it would be gone, along with all the jobs that 1%er created by investing that capital in capitalism. All the wealth held by the top ten percent would run the government for less than six months.While the people who do all the work in society struggle to get by, not to mention the people that society has left behind.
The economic problem in the US, and everywhere else, is the fucking rapacious, ravenous, gluttonous, wasteful, bloated and fundamentally corrupt government that takes people's money and wastes it by the bale. First order of business to get the economy rolling is to amend the Commerce Clause to eliminate 90 percent of the federal government overnight.
Face it, you're simply inferior to them, and anyone else who makes more than you, and you're not worth more than you're getting paid right now, and probably never will be. So suck it up and get used to working for minimum wage because that's all your lazy socialist asses are worth.
And you're a socialist fuckwit, and I absolutely believe it.You're a clown. Not even you believes this.