Income Inequality

[apeman]

For everyone who bitches about bagging at the kiosk, expect to see something like this: https://stopandshop.com/shopping/shopping-tools/scanit/

I used to use this all the time when I lived right next to a Stop n' Plop. Works great, especially when all of the cashiers have lines 5-6 people deep due to the impending "snowpocalypse."

Also, the one minor, annoying thing about this is getting randomly audited when you're checking out to make sure you're not passing off those expensive blood oranges as regular navels.

This is smart

[SilverEagle]

Interesting article from August of last year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36957439

[apeman]

The bigger problem is the destruction of the middle class.

That's a good point and useful for refocusing. Not a zero sum game. Problem is, productivity has been pitiful for a while, we can't break 2% GDP for like a decade.

When growth is stagnant, everyone starts looking around and wondering who is getting the better of them.

Found an image to accompany this point:

[SilverEagle]

This is very good topic and I'm sad that I missed out on a ton of good discussion. Stupid flu! Anyways, I highly doubt that my wife and I will have a retirement like retires from the 80's and 90's had, hell I'm not sure even if we'll have one. Also I fear for the economic future of our children. I don't see things changing unless we have a major war.

[SilverEagle]

The bigger problem is the destruction of the middle class.

That's a good point and useful for refocusing. Not a zero sum game. Problem is, productivity has been pitiful for a while, we can't break 2% GDP for like a decade.

When growth is stagnant, everyone starts looking around and wondering who is getting the better of them.

Found an image to accompany this point:

Wage growth has been stagnant for 17 years. That is the real issue. Cost of living keeps rising but real wages are flat. End result.........a rapidly dying middle class and the wealthy don't give a fuck.

[apeman]

This is very good topic and I'm sad that I missed out on a ton of good discussion. Stupid flu! Anyways, I highly doubt that my wife and I will have a retirement like retires from the 80's and 90's had, hell I'm not sure even if we'll have one. Also I fear for the economic future of our children. I don't see things changing unless we have a major war.

1. we are about to commence a legitimate retirement crisis. The statistics on this are astonishing, I will dig up some facts when I get a chance later.
2. we can't have a major war again, or retirement will be the last of our concerns.

[Speaker to Animals]

When you come to realize that the goal of the establishment of both parties is to annihilate the American people, and the middle class along with it, you will come to see that these other issues are totally fabricated distractions. Income inequality is neither good nor bad. You can have huge income inequalities and the American people still be better off. It's possible that the best practical policies, that would lead to the most prosperity of the American people, would entail huge income inequalities.

What they certainly don't want you to look as is the destruction of our people through destructive trade and immigration policies. The policies pushed by the establishment have been truly treasonous.

But by recasting issues as matters of taxation or "income inequality", they can keep people from noticing that the causes come down to the demographic annihilation of the American people. Why are wages stagnant? Because we keep importing more people even as productivity decreases the numbers of jobs. Why are real earnings in decline? Because we keep offshoring high-paying jobs to the developing world and importing professionals on H1B visas (slaves) to glut the labor market.

All of this shit happens when politicians do not put the American people first.

[SilverEagle]

This is very good topic and I'm sad that I missed out on a ton of good discussion. Stupid flu! Anyways, I highly doubt that my wife and I will have a retirement like retires from the 80's and 90's had, hell I'm not sure even if we'll have one. Also I fear for the economic future of our children. I don't see things changing unless we have a major war.

1. we are about to commence a legitimate retirement crisis. The statistics on this are astonishing, I will dig up some facts when I get a chance later.
2. we can't have a major war again, or retirement will be the last of our concerns.

I'll be waiting for those facts. Hopefully I can digest it, my head is still really foggy,
I also agree we can't afford another major war but we have been on that path for a long while. Can we jump off that path? I think so but the longer we're on that path then harder it will be to jump off.

[apeman]

. Income inequality is neither good nor bad. You can have huge income inequalities and the American people still be better off. It's possible that the best practical policies, that would lead to the most prosperity of the American people, would entail huge income inequalities.

Not a hard sell to me.

What they certainly don't want you to look as is the destruction of our people through destructive trade and immigration policies.

I think at least part of the reason for this is the economic system we live under and the promises made require population growth i.e. we don't wanna become Japan.

But by recasting issues as matters of taxation or "income inequality", they can keep people from noticing that the causes come down to the demographic annihilation of the American people. Why are wages stagnant? Because we keep importing more people even as productivity decreases the numbers of jobs. Why are real earnings in decline? Because we keep offshoring high-paying jobs to the developing world and importing professionals on H1B visas (slaves) to glut the labor market.

All of this shit happens when politicians do not put the American people first.

Once you have the tech to globalize like we have, I wonder if the genie can ever truly be put back in the bottle. I have no doubt that we are witnessing a global rejection of globalization (even our negative reactions to globalization are global lol), the pendulum swings too far this way and then too far the other, but I really have trouble imagining a future world where globalization has been defeated.

[Okeefenokee]

Rachel Dolezal is on food stamps, supposedly.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /98469292/