It's Happening.

[StCapps]

The existence of class is what makes an aristocracy, hereditary nobility is but one form of an aristocracy, not the only variety.
Only a classless society would have no aristocracy, but there is no such thing, so aristocracy always persists and has never been eliminated, and as the communists have shown, attempting to produce that classless society never goes well.

[Smitty-48]

USA Lags Peer Countries Mobility

The children of Socialist parents have more chance of breaking out than in Capitalist America. The apologists argue that absolute mobility (rising tide) is the same. We’re the ones creating Royalty.

I'm a child of socialist parents, just made me into a right wing nutjob with a hard on for chucking commies out of helicopters for the Queen.

[Martin Hash]

Liberty requires opportunity, and opportunity = money. Wealth statification hordes wealth, meaning they horde liberty. Ultimately, the king is the only one with liberty.

[Smitty-48]

Her Majesty has been berry berry goo to me, like, working for the Crown, that was a good deal, getting paid a middle class wage, total rent and meals for the month; $115, and that included cable tv and a phone too, I had plenty of money, and not much to spend it on, so I just socked it away.

God save the Queen.

[Smitty-48]

Mind you, back then, interest rates were high, so when you put your money in the bank, it compounded pretty quick, made more on a savings account back then than you'd make on a 401K now.

[Smitty-48]

The existence of class is what makes an aristocracy, hereditary nobility is but one form of an aristocracy, not the only variety.
Only a classless society would have no aristocracy, but there is no such thing, so aristocracy always persists and has never been eliminated, and as the communists have shown, attempting to produce that classless society never goes well.

Notice that on Marty's list there, five of the six highest social mobility countries; are monarchies, and five of the six lowest social mobility countries; are republics.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Mind you, back then, interest rates were high, so when you put your money in the bank, it compounded pretty quick, made more on a savings account back then than you'd make on a 401K now.

Yeah, back when there was a point to saving money. Banksters hate that shit.

[Smitty-48]

Mind you, back then, interest rates were high, so when you put your money in the bank, it compounded pretty quick, made more on a savings account back then than you'd make on a 401K now.

Yeah, back when there was a point to saving money. Banksters hate that shit.

Double edged sword, my father was also paying 18% on his mortgage at the time.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Mind you, back then, interest rates were high, so when you put your money in the bank, it compounded pretty quick, made more on a savings account back then than you'd make on a 401K now.

Yeah, back when there was a point to saving money. Banksters hate that shit.

Double edged sword, my father was also paying 18% on his mortgage at the time.

On a $20,000 house no doubt.

[Smitty-48]

Yeah, back when there was a point to saving money. Banksters hate that shit.

Double edged sword, my father was also paying 18% on his mortgage at the time.

On a $20,000 house no doubt.

$255,000. I sold it after he died, for $750,000.

I don't know when you think houses were $20,000, but my grandparents bought a house in Flintridge California in the 1960's, and that was $43,000.

My father sold it after they died, for $1.35 million.