Europe, the not boring thread

[StCapps]

What good is wisdom if you lose the war and get overrun? Nobody remembers the wisdom of the defeated.

The problem I have is that neither side considers me their ally. When I say I’ll be one of the first “Disappeared,” I’m not being hyperbolic.

Very true, you are a Kulak. Only for some reason you want the government to take your shit, you just want them to wait until your dead before they do.

[Martin Hash]

What good is wisdom if you lose the war and get overrun? Nobody remembers the wisdom of the defeated.

The problem I have is that neither side considers me their ally. When I say I’ll be one of the first “Disappeared,” I’m not being hyperbolic.

Very true, you are a Kulak. Only for some reason you want the government to take your shit, you just want them to wait until your dead before they do.

Nice

[Smitty-48]

What good is wisdom if you lose the war and get overrun? Nobody remembers the wisdom of the defeated.

The problem I have is that neither side considers me their ally. When I say I’ll be one of the first “Disappeared,” I’m not being hyperbolic.

Nah, the left has gone so far left, you're on Red Team now.

[Smitty-48]

Red Team itself has moved left.

Red Team is where Blue Team used to be, Blue Team has become the Tranny Commies.

[Martin Hash]

What good is wisdom if you lose the war and get overrun? Nobody remembers the wisdom of the defeated.

The problem I have is that neither side considers me their ally. When I say I’ll be one of the first “Disappeared,” I’m not being hyperbolic.

Nah, the left has gone so far left, you're on Red Team now.

I have some evidence that is true. Our local R Party split: Never-Trumpers vs Conservatives, the Conservatives contacted me.

[Smitty-48]

The problem I have is that neither side considers me their ally. When I say I’ll be one of the first “Disappeared,” I’m not being hyperbolic.

Nah, the left has gone so far left, you're on Red Team now.

I have some evidence that is true. Our local R Party split: Never-Trumpers vs Conservatives, the Conservatives contacted me.

Red Team transcends those differences; united in hatred of the Trannie Commies

Once we wipe them out, then we can get back to fighting with each other,

[StCapps]

Nah, the left has gone so far left, you're on Red Team now.

I have some evidence that is true. Our local R Party split: Never-Trumpers vs Conservatives, the Conservatives contacted me.

Red Team transcends those differences; united in hatred of the Trannie Commies

Once we wipe them out, then we can get back to fighting with each other,

Alliance of convenience Marty, you're more likely to get elected as a Republican, even with your view on taxes. Just got to bash on the Tranny Commie Agenda, and you can use your being a Democrat for so long to attack the Democrats for going crazy and driving the rational Democrats away with great credibility. Triangulation FTW.

#WalkAway

[Martin Hash]

Agree

[Hastur]

All the winners had to do was not engage in nepotism, and stop creating dynasties, but that’s the way our biology works.

This.

We see the same shit going on in multiple countries right now where ordinary people feel they are suffering while the ruling elites gets richer. Lebanon, Chile, Iraq and Ecuador. The yellow vests in France and the farmers in the Netherlands is also similar.

The big one if it happens will be China.
https://quillette.com/2019/10/18/chinas ... -struggle/

Yet this remarkable growth has come at the expense of China’s supposedly egalitarian ethos. Since 1978 the country’s GINI ratings—a system that measures inequality—have gone from highly egalitarian to more unequal than Mexico, Brazil, and Kenya, as well as the United States and virtually all of Europe. In avowedly socialist China, roughly 1300 individuals constitute roughly 20 percent of the country’s wealth, and top one percent roughly one-third.

Initially, China’s progress lifted up all classes, raising as many as 850 million people out of extreme poverty in 40 years, one of the greatest economic accomplishments in history. Yet the boom has been less successful in creating a Western-style mass middle class which analyst Nan Chen estimates at roughly 12 percent of the population. “Rather than replicating the middle-class growth of post-World War II America,” she observes, “China appears to have skipped that stage altogether and headed straight for a model of extraordinary productivity but disproportionately distributed wealth.”

The Migrant Time-Bomb

Overall, two-thirds of all Chinese are either migrant laborers, peasants, industrial workers, or agriculture laborers—all groups unlikely to make it into the Chinese middle class by Chinese standards.1 Many work in the migrant labor force, roughly 250 million strong. These workers trekked from small towns and rural areas in order to bus tables, work on construction sites, and otherwise undertake the tasks that more fortunate Chinese with urban hukou or resident permits generally do not choose to perform.

[StCapps]

All the winners had to do was not engage in nepotism, and stop creating dynasties, but that’s the way our biology works.

This.

We see the same shit going on in multiple countries right now where ordinary people feel they are suffering while the ruling elites gets richer. Lebanon, Chile, Iraq and Ecuador. The yellow vests in France and the farmers in the Netherlands is also similar.

The big one if it happens will be China.
https://quillette.com/2019/10/18/chinas ... -struggle/

Yet this remarkable growth has come at the expense of China’s supposedly egalitarian ethos. Since 1978 the country’s GINI ratings—a system that measures inequality—have gone from highly egalitarian to more unequal than Mexico, Brazil, and Kenya, as well as the United States and virtually all of Europe. In avowedly socialist China, roughly 1300 individuals constitute roughly 20 percent of the country’s wealth, and top one percent roughly one-third.

Initially, China’s progress lifted up all classes, raising as many as 850 million people out of extreme poverty in 40 years, one of the greatest economic accomplishments in history. Yet the boom has been less successful in creating a Western-style mass middle class which analyst Nan Chen estimates at roughly 12 percent of the population. “Rather than replicating the middle-class growth of post-World War II America,” she observes, “China appears to have skipped that stage altogether and headed straight for a model of extraordinary productivity but disproportionately distributed wealth.”

The Migrant Time-Bomb

Overall, two-thirds of all Chinese are either migrant laborers, peasants, industrial workers, or agriculture laborers—all groups unlikely to make it into the Chinese middle class by Chinese standards.1 Many work in the migrant labor force, roughly 250 million strong. These workers trekked from small towns and rural areas in order to bus tables, work on construction sites, and otherwise undertake the tasks that more fortunate Chinese with urban hukou or resident permits generally do not choose to perform.

Turns out that nations too heavily focused on egalitarian policies suck at delivering less income inequality and in fact exacerbate the issue, who knew?

Robinhood economics for the fail, they'd rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich, so long as the gap between them is smaller. Envy is a helluva drug.