“Income Inequality”: A Crisis of Stupidity

[danielpalos]

...The right is complains everyday that the least wealthy in the US are not really poor enough when compared to the more Capitalist, third world.

Nonsensical nonsense.
All rational people know that a rising tide raises all ships (though not necessarily equally).
Only loony lefties and anarchists try to make your consistently silly arguments.

This is misleading for a lot of reasons. First off this premise is often very dependent on looking at well being in very crude ways. For example it tends to place an emphasis on superficial things like consumer goods while failing to account for other things like crime rate and their place in the social order.

It is also a premise that tends to rely on transfer payments to be true. So if we really want to claim that rising tides lift all ships we also have to make sure we are not arguing to cut benefits with the next breath.

It is also a premise that tends to rely on the emotional arguments attributed to increases in technology that make everyone see life as getting better but technological progress only does so much for the poor.

Are we talking about crime, or about economics?

The two are completely separate issues.

China by most estimates had a very low crime rate, prior to 1978, and 63% of the population lived below the poverty line of $2 a day.

If you try and claim that it's the government transfers of wealth that raise all boats, then why is it we had at one point, 4th generation welfare recipients? Why is it, that the those who have been living off the government for decades, are still the lowest levels of the wealth scale?

If anything, those transfers have kept some boats from raising with the rest.

We are talking about measuring the standard of living. A person in an American ghetto may have a cell phone but that doesn't say that much about what their life is actually like. You can calculate a number that establishes their income in a given year in cash and services but once again that only says so much about their life.

Crime is relevant in establishing what kind of society or neighborhood an individual lives in. There is a monetary value for living in a neighborhood with low crime that is not reflected unless crime is considered. Crime is just one of many factors that can make it difficult to compare two unlike things.

Crime is not something that changes because of an economic system, or an education system.

Why do you believe that assumption may hold true under any form of capitalism where socialism can simply bailout labor on an at-will basis in any at-will employment State as an opportunity cost to being infidel, protestant, and renegade to our own laws.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Name a top 10 educational system that isn't government....Norway = government, Japan = government, etc. You think that is bad to be kicking our ass?

people from all over the world come to our private colleges and universities which are widely recognized as the best in the world.