Income Inequality

[Okeefenokee]

Bam! Right there! Thank you!

You already have an even playing field. You don't live under Saddam's Baath party, and you look like a squalling infant with this asinine attempt to pretend as though you do. There are no laws saying poor people aren't allowed to go to college. There are no bars to employment in high paying jobs for people who aren't affiliated with the correct clique.

But please, continue on with your incessant whining and bitching about how bad it is that you have so little opportunity. It's pretty much the same as Cuba under Castro out there, amiright? Let's make some signs and have a protest.

I'm pretty sure that there's some sort of middle ground between living under Castro or Sadaam, and egalitarian utopia.... or is that binary in your head?

I'm pretty sure you're a fag and your shit's all fucked up.

but seriously, we aren't going to achieve an egalitarian utopia. We aren't all the same, and therefor we won't reach a point where what we have is all the same. You have a greater opportunity to be successful in America than you do anywhere else in the world. It isn't about trying to be super wealthy like Martin keeps trying to turn this into. That's a pretty weak premise, that unless you can achieve uber wealth without even trying that you live in hell and are the victim of injustice.

All these attempts to paint this as the buildup to the french revolution are also horseshit. None of the conditions are even close to being the same.

[TheReal_ND]

The trains were supposedly filled with Jews bound for death camps to get their head shaved and deloused before being gassed. That's the joke.

[Speaker to Animals]

If you want egalitarianism, then go live with primitive tribes in the rain forest.

I like technology and complex society. Thanks, anyway.

[jbird4049]

You already have an even playing field. You don't live under Saddam's Baath party, and you look like a squalling infant with this asinine attempt to pretend as though you do. There are no laws saying poor people aren't allowed to go to college. There are no bars to employment in high paying jobs for people who aren't affiliated with the correct clique.

But please, continue on with your incessant whining and bitching about how bad it is that you have so little opportunity. It's pretty much the same as Cuba under Castro out there, amiright? Let's make some signs and have a protest.

I'm pretty sure that there's some sort of middle ground between living under Castro or Sadaam, and egalitarian utopia.... or is that binary in your head?

I'm pretty sure you're a fag and your shit's all fucked up.

but seriously, we aren't going to achieve an egalitarian utopia. We aren't all the same, and therefor we won't reach a point where what we have is all the same. You have a greater opportunity to be successful in America than you do anywhere else in the world. It isn't about trying to be super wealthy like Martin keeps trying to turn this into. That's a pretty weak premise, that unless you can achieve uber wealth without even trying that you live in hell and are the victim of injustice.

All these attempts to paint this as the buildup to the french revolution are also horseshit. None of the conditions are even close to being the same.

Aside from that little dog, GCF was pointing out that there is a vast difference between some uber egalitarian dystopian society and some dictatorial hellhole. But you appear to not see the long spectrum, just an on/off view. Further, I can see the difference between 1975 to now, or ask relatives for further back, or read. It has been a long slow slide down for most of the country, and it is picking up speed. This can be willfully be denied but that will not change it.

Also, people and the societies being what they are when an explosion happens, and what it will do is unpredictable.

Almost no one could have predicted that the Ancient Regime would fall when the French King called the National Parliament into session (for the first time in over a century). People expected the French Parliament to deal with the disaster that was France's medieval joke of a financial system and probably twist the King into making some concessions. We all know that didn't happen as it led to twins decades of war covering all of Europe.

[jbird4049]

The trains were supposedly filled with Jews bound for death camps to get their head shaved and deloused before being gassed. That's the joke.

Oh.

[Fife]

Almost no one could have predicted that the Ancient Regime would fall when the French King called the National Parliament into session (for the first time in over a century). People expected the French Parliament to deal with the disaster that was France's medieval joke of a financial system and probably twist the King into making some concessions. We all know that didn't happen as it led to twins decades of war covering all of Europe.

Say what?

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

#iblamenecker

[Okeefenokee]

[jbird4049]

Almost no one could have predicted that the Ancient Regime would fall when the French King called the National Parliament into session (for the first time in over a century). People expected the French Parliament to deal with the disaster that was France's medieval joke of a financial system and probably twist the King into making some concessions. We all know that didn't happen as it led to twins decades of war covering all of Europe.

Say what?

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• It's been getting worse for 40 years here in America.
  No one can predict what, when, why, and how it'll go boom!
  For Example,
  King called the French Parliament into session for financial reforms.
  It gets out of hand.
  Europe burns for the next 25 years be
  I really really don't share some posters "whatever!"

[BjornP]

Prevent employees from organizing and your employees will naturally have a harder time negotiating better pay or benefits. Simple and effective divide and conquer logic.

And these businesses don't really have any strong opposition left in the US, as the article below seems to indicate (not to anyone here's surprise, perhaps). Destroying unions at home and abroad is a natural outcome of those business cultures that no longer respect the basic rights of man to pursue happiness on equal terms, but simply want governments to take away the liberty of their employees in return for them getting more liberty to do whatever the hell they want. A notion that only you, yourself, alone deserve freedom at the expense of everyone else's. Simply one more notch on the club of the entitlement culture caveman.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/why-ar ... rm-9833510