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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:11:45 PM EST
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Pay more taxes so we can be kangz n shit
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:11:49 PM EST
[#2]
Rich have money, poor dont, scales tilting one way or another i.e. inequalities
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:16:56 PM EST
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:18:42 PM EST
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 D'Souza absolutely DESTROYS leftist college student |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:19:27 PM EST
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I keep hearing the left talking about wealth inequality, but I am not hearing what problem that causes. Poverty keeps going down despite the apparent increase in this wealth inequality. Other than the 'morality' of it, which I could give a shit about, what problems does wealth inequality cause (as far as the left is concerned)? |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:19:44 PM EST
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It's feels mostly.
They are oblivious to how many jobs wealthy people support and how much they pay in taxes. A guy worth billions likely has businesses that give work to thousands of people. Sure there are those 2nd, 3rd and beyond generation rich guys that were born into it and were able to either take over a turn key operation or just live off a trust fund, but they aren't the norm when it comes to your average higher than middle class earner. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:19:51 PM EST
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One issue is that it breeds resentment among a lot of the have nots, if the gap gets too large.
Human beings are tribal, and you can't expect them to treat someone like Jeff bezos as part of their tribe when they live a totally alien life and don't seem to give a shit about them. They'll vote for leftist politicians. That can't beat with dismissal and hand waving about sour grapes or feels |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:20:08 PM EST
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website.
Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:22:26 PM EST
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People's definition of poverty has changed so much, poor people today are significantly better off than wealthy people from a century ago. When the left uses those terms, they only do so because they want more control and power
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:23:30 PM EST
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Jealousy
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:23:43 PM EST
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I want everyone to post their age when they say they have no problem with wealth inequality, along with how old they were when they bought their first home. I'm just making a bet.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:24:53 PM EST
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website. Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. I think that about covers it. 
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:26:06 PM EST
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This is why Marx & Engels (a rich kid) hated the Christian religion...one of the reasons anyway...the other was tribal.
The Christian religion taught that men ought to work hard but not envy others...or plan to kill them and steal what others had made for themselves. Marx taught that religion was the opiate of the masses...keeping them from murdering their "oppressors"...their bosses or their neighbors bosses, the owners of the factories, shops, stores, banks, etc.... It was all a lie...Marx wanted the masses to rise up and kill their bosses making new bosses that Marx et al could control and siphon money off of....meet the new boss he's worse than the old boss... At least the old boss would not have your family killed or imprison you for grousing about him to your mates in the pub after work...or steal all your possessions and sentence you to death in a work camp... The college professors of course want someone else to do the dirty work while they sit back and watch and vicariously experience the great revolution...they are the lowest of the low imo Now entertainment is the opiate of the masses helping to inculcate minds with fantasies of violence and social justice The overthrowing of the America of our founders is what the modern day generational communist is after...the globalists simply need America out of the way....with our borders erased and our culture so muddied up it no long matters if it even still exists after they are done terror-forming it. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:26:40 PM EST
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There is no real problem with it. All the complaining about it is just based on envy.
Our poor people have a roof over their heads, A/C, plumbing, food, etc and a lot of them don't do a damn thing to deserve or earn any of it. But they take all that for granted and scream for more because someone else actually has a vision and goes out and creates wealth. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:27:25 PM EST
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The problem is lazy, unintelligent fucks want to be rich but they haven't the drive or skills to do it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I keep hearing the left talking about wealth inequality, but I am not hearing what problem that causes. Poverty keeps going down despite the apparent increase in this wealth inequality. Other than the 'morality' of it, which I could give a shit about, what problems does wealth inequality cause (as far as the left is concerned)? |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:27:48 PM EST
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Jealousy |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:28:45 PM EST
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It’s an excuse to take your money and give it to people who vote D.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:30:11 PM EST
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I want everyone to post their age when they say they have no problem with wealth inequality, along with how old they were when they bought their first home. I'm just making a bet. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:30:24 PM EST
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You have $$ what you work for. This doesn't sit well with lazy people or those in power who want more power. In reality there is no such thing as income inequality...just haves and have nots. The have nots think they are entitled to what the haves have.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:31:00 PM EST
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The biggest problem I see is capital hoarding, our economy would be orders of magnitude stronger if more of that wealth were flowing through the economic lower end majority and lower middle class.
Something does need to change in the realm of wage stagnation. That being said, I abhor the idea that there be any forced redistribution of wealth. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:31:02 PM EST
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website. Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. In other words, I think you've done well for yourself and I wish I'd made some different choices, but I don't beget you your success.....I am in fact happy for you! Just wish I wasn't as stupid as when I was younger. Good job! |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:31:21 PM EST
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I want everyone to post their age when they say they have no problem with wealth inequality, along with how old they were when they bought their first home. I'm just making a bet. Millennial homeowner that like wealthy business owners, GD might explode. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:31:47 PM EST
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Because some people have more wealth than others, and that's not fair.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:32:28 PM EST
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The problem is Marxists need votes, and envy is a good way to attract them.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:33:21 PM EST
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The biggest problem I see is capital hoarding, our economy would be orders of magnitude stronger if more of that wealth were flowing through the economic lower end majority and lower middle class. Something does need to change in the realm of wage stagnation. That being said, I abhor the idea that there be any forced redistribution of wealth. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:34:21 PM EST
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A temporary resource deputy at the school I work at basically brought the faculty lunchroom to beautiful silence with a quote. The deputy was a Marine and had been all over the world. It was obvious after he had joined our lunch for a time that he was extremely right-leaning. When people tried to lecture him about "the poor" his response was "America is the only country in the world where the poor people are fat."
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:34:50 PM EST
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Pay more taxes so we can be kangz n shit 
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:34:50 PM EST
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Because some people have more wealth than others, and that's not fair. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:35:08 PM EST
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Watch this Chris Martenson's video on how the policies of the Federal Reserve fueled the inequality gap. Many of us here have benefitted somewhat from their policy. Specifically, those with equities, real property and income from rents (as opposed to wages). For the vast majority, the policies of the Fed. Res. (QE 1-4) have been a disaster (witness the increasing homelessness, 20% plus unemployment rate, tapped out consumer (which is why Sears, JC Penny, Victoria Secrets, etc. are shutting stores)).
It's almost 24 minutes.  How the Fed created AOC and the Yellow Vests: Peak Prosperity News Update 3-2-2019 |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:35:24 PM EST
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To play devils advocate, it is a problem because dumb fucks will vote in champaign socialists, like horse face, to make things fair.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:36:02 PM EST
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I want everyone to post their age when they say they have no problem with wealth inequality, along with how old they were when they bought their first home. I'm just making a bet. Bought my first home at 27 I have no problem with wealth inequality |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:36:44 PM EST
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I have done jobs for, and know a handful of very wealthy people (not 1% or anything, but can buy pretty much whatever they want compared to everyone else). Even the ones that are second generation business owners all have one thing in common, they basically eat and sleep work almost 100% of the time. Far more drive and ability to look ahead than I have for sure. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Because some people have more wealth than others, and that's not fair. Then the only question we'd have is what do we do with our newfound prosperity, now that the money has been redistributed more fairly, from a very few to the many. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:40:46 PM EST
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I have no problem with wealth or wealth inequality. I do raise a brow when someone is wealthy enough to buy enough political influence to get their way at the expense of millions of others...like Soros.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:45:14 PM EST
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Redacted. Pointless thread.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:45:33 PM EST
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website. Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:47:19 PM EST
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Because some people have more wealth than others, and that's not fair. I would gladly trade that wealth for youth. If that were possible, I wonder how many would take me up on that? |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:47:53 PM EST
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website. Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. My cynical side doesn't believe anyone in gd when it comes to vehicles. The most commonly bullshitted topic in here, imho. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:49:28 PM EST
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I want everyone to post their age when they say they have no problem with wealth inequality, along with how old they were when they bought their first home. I'm just making a bet. 
ETA: I'm 43 |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:49:56 PM EST
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The problem is lazy, unintelligent fucks want to be rich but they haven't the drive or skills to do it. There is no inequality. Everyone is equally able to achieve as much as the other. Some are just too stupid and lazy to amount to anything, so they blame whitey and everything else to justify their failures as human beings. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:50:03 PM EST
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It's an alibi for globalists having destroyed the manufacturing economy in the US.
They want to focus resentment on the small business owner on Main Street, not the tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley or NAFTA jackals |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:53:01 PM EST
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Jealousy Plain, simple, direct, and to the point. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:55:23 PM EST
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Lol, or don't have a membership. Its like for the first time in their minimum wage paying life they get to look down on someone else by chastising them for not paying $24 bucks to a website. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website. Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. "go be poor somewhere else" has become the rally cry for financial irresponsibility. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 4:55:40 PM EST
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The problem with wealth inequality is that when the population of have not's become large enough and the disparities become a little too stark, the have not's begin to feel cheated, whether it's true or not.
Then things start to spiral out of control. It matters not that you worked hard, made sacrifices, scrimped and saved to get where you are. The hoi polloi will feel that you've gamed the system, or got one up on them because of your skin color, religion, accent or whatever makes you similar to the other well of and different from them. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:00:04 PM EST
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I want everyone to post their age when they say they have no problem with wealth inequality, along with how old they were when they bought their first home. I'm just making a bet. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:01:17 PM EST
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I keep hearing the left talking about wealth inequality, but I am not hearing what problem that causes. Poverty keeps going down despite the apparent increase in this wealth inequality. Other than the 'morality' of it, which I could give a shit about, what problems does wealth inequality cause (as far as the left is concerned)? My point? This is the backbone of "wealth inequality". Those who don't know how to successfully make money aren't encouraged to actually learn how to be successful. Instead, they're constantly taught that they're poor because it was "stolen" from them. And this is how the left wants it. This way the poor will vote for the left and the "assistance" plans, believing it's the only way they can survive. If the opposite happened, if people started learning how to handle their own finances properly... then the left would lose their biggest bargaining chip. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:03:16 PM EST
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The problem is lazy, unintelligent fucks want to be rich but they haven't the drive or skills to do it. The way they look at wealth is mind boggling to me. Basically they seem to view it as a "resource", meaning they think all these rich people are hoarding money that should rightfully be part of the community. or something like that. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:05:15 PM EST
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Whether it is morally justified or not increased inequality destabilizes society. I don't know what the right amount is, or what the solution to too much is, but I like our society in more or less the form we have rather than chaos.
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:05:42 PM EST
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Mowing the lawns and cleaning pools for "rich" people sounds far better than lots of other things that would occur if the rich people didn't exist.
If you took all the money in the world and divided it up equally among the world population, I suspect the people who want free money would be really disappointed in how little it would actually be. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:06:02 PM EST
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Those who choose to become the .gov are adept at portraying themselves as the solution and the business capitol holders as the enemy, or evil.
If you think that businessmen who have to work in a competitive marketplace are less ethical then your typical leftist congressman, have at it. The biggest moral issue I will throw out is if your bottom line is so important that you create a sweatshop environment. But that was really from the muckraking period of 130 years ago, and IMHO not really relevant. |
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Posted: 3/3/2019 5:06:03 PM EST
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Except that new platnum super duty is being financed with no down payment with a loan stretched out for 87 years and 87% interest. My cynical side doesn't believe anyone in gd when it comes to vehicles. The most commonly bullshitted topic in here, imho. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It seems to cause a lot of problems right here on this website. Post a thread about buying a new platinum super duty and see what happens. My cynical side doesn't believe anyone in gd when it comes to vehicles. The most commonly bullshitted topic in here, imho. |
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