Wealth Inequality

[Deplorable Yankee]

I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

 

[Nostra]

For a different opinion on equality, read Harrison Bergeron .

I have. Great book, good thing we aren't talking about everyone having an EQUAL amount of money. As the video states THIS would not work because then there is no incentive to work.
I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

I didn't have to listen for very long to get the message. And I have a response. The first sentence was, How do you think the money/wealth is distributed in the US. DISTRIBUTED???? Nothing is distributed. It is earned. So the first sentence should be, How do you think the people have earned their wages in comparison to their education/willingness to work hard instead of hardly working..

The lower wage earners are on the government's welfare, the next level is kids still in high school and older people who never graduated from high school . Then there are also high school graduates that don't want to work hard...they are the "hardly working group."

From there, we get the people that work harder without further education and those who went further and learned trades and those still working and in college. That's the middle class.

Those who really work hard and most went on to college and got multiple degrees are the workers who make more than the middle class and some rise to the higher level of society along with those who started with family fund and began their own businesses.

So what does all of that mean? Stay in school, work hard and make the most of the opportunities afforded to you.

Not how it works but its nice you think it does. It would be great if it worked that easily, it would be even better if those that want to go to college can do so without racking up 100k in debt to do so but the system is rigged to enslave people in debt for their entire lives.

This is not news. It's always been this way.

Not always. Until 1913 we didn't have a Fed Reserve who manipulated our money and things were NO WHERE near this bad as far as until the 1960's. It will continue to get worse until the system collapses. Without all us workers the CEO's and Presidents of companies have no one to make the products from which they steal the wealth of the working man....all it takes is for a mass walkout and the whole corrupt system collapses.

typical wealth envy screed.

colleges have been indoctrinating idiot kids with that for decades. Congrats on your indoctrination.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

For a different opinion on equality, read Harrison Bergeron .

I have. Great book, good thing we aren't talking about everyone having an EQUAL amount of money. As the video states THIS would not work because then there is no incentive to work.
I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

I didn't have to listen for very long to get the message. And I have a response. The first sentence was, How do you think the money/wealth is distributed in the US. DISTRIBUTED???? Nothing is distributed. It is earned. So the first sentence should be, How do you think the people have earned their wages in comparison to their education/willingness to work hard instead of hardly working..

The lower wage earners are on the government's welfare, the next level is kids still in high school and older people who never graduated from high school . Then there are also high school graduates that don't want to work hard...they are the "hardly working group."

From there, we get the people that work harder without further education and those who went further and learned trades and those still working and in college. That's the middle class.

Those who really work hard and most went on to college and got multiple degrees are the workers who make more than the middle class and some rise to the higher level of society along with those who started with family fund and began their own businesses.

So what does all of that mean? Stay in school, work hard and make the most of the opportunities afforded to you.

Not how it works but its nice you think it does. It would be great if it worked that easily, it would be even better if those that want to go to college can do so without racking up 100k in debt to do so but the system is rigged to enslave people in debt for their entire lives.

This is not news. It's always been this way.

Not always. Until 1913 we didn't have a Fed Reserve who manipulated our money and things were NO WHERE near this bad as far as until the 1960's. It will continue to get worse until the system collapses. Without all us workers the CEO's and Presidents of companies have no one to make the products from which they steal the wealth of the working man....all it takes is for a mass walkout and the whole corrupt system collapses.

it would be even better if those that want to go to college can do so without racking up 100k in debt to do

You're right, college employees should work for free. Colleges should stop charging tuition.

 

[Grumblenuts]

I know Preacher. We go way back. Preacher is a friend of mine. He and I were in business together many years. We both made hundreds of millions and have since multiplied that into billions through smart investment. We are just visitors here trying to help some of those less fortunate. We are the club. Normally we wouldn't be caught dead talking to riff-raff such as yourselves. Especially those so clearly determined to kiss our asses while pretending to be like us.

We do in fact have way too much. Far more than any deserve or could frivolously spend in ten lifetimes. Like you we are insufferable jerks. And pathologically so. But just to clue you in, here's the difference. Just as Carlin said. We really don't care about you. At all. At all.. At least we didn't until more recently. Now we've begun scaring ourselves. We can't even fathom our own wealth these days. It's grown that ridiculous. Some of us are actually beginning to develop a conscience! That's the difference between us. We're beginning to fear for all if no one steps forward to stop us soon. Appears you never will develop any since you'll never catch up which is all you care about. We know. We've been there.

 

[Mac-7]

Thanks for bringing the propaganda you are being fed.

Someday you will be in the real world and get a real education.

He is being force-fed leftist dogma

but apparently he is not totally infected yet

 

[arved]

Thanks for bringing the propaganda you are being fed.

Someday you will be in the real world and get a real education.

He is being force-fed leftist dogma

but apparently he is not totally infected yet

tell me more.

 

[Mac-7]

I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

what sort of “real change” do you think everyone should be voting for?

 

[Mac-7]

Thanks for bringing the propaganda you are being fed.

Someday you will be in the real world and get a real education.

He is being force-fed leftist dogma

but apparently he is not totally infected yet

tell me more.

No, we need to hear more from the op as per my question to the op

 

[Mac-7]

I think the chinese flu is serious

it can be a swift killer for some of us it

but will not kill 2 million Americans as some health experts predicted and the media gleefully reported

 

[Blues Man]

I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

No one is stealing your labor.

No one is keeping you from increasing your net worth, which is what wealth is.

No one is forcing you to work for a company that mistreats you.

So you can whine about what others have and what you do not or you can pull up your big boy pants and get in the game.

 

[MAGAman]

I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

I watched your Leftist propaganda video and it does not make any substantive argument about theft by the evil rich.

You greedy, envious Lefties should stop whining about what other people have because it's not your business and you're not entitled to any of it.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

We do in fact have way too much. Far more than any deserve or could frivolously spend in ten lifetimes. Like you we are insufferable jerks.

Is that so? Well, anytime you want to get rid of some of that wealth, just let me know. I'll message you my address.

 

[Grumblenuts]

We do in fact have way too much. Far more than any deserve or could frivolously spend in ten lifetimes. Like you we are insufferable jerks.

Is that so? Well, anytime you want to get rid of some of that wealth, just let me know. I'll message you my address.

Get a job. Stop whining about what other people have because it's not your business and you're not entitled to any of it.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I watched the video. I've seen it before.

I am a middle class person. My needs are met. I have a roof over my head, plenty to eat, etc

I do not base the quality of my life on "keeping up with the Jones" Historically, I am richer than 99% of those that came before me.

Yes, somebody posted that same video about seven or eight months ago, so I couldn't stomach it either.

 

[Thinker101]

I just had to watch this video for a class in college. Finally had to do something in this class I enjoy talking about and can discuss easily. I do wonder for my classmates how they are going to react to seeing the theft of their labor in such stark terms. Anyways, its a 6 minute video well worth watching. I expect the usual drivel from the CONservatives and the usual let's go ALL the way to socialism from the lefties but these same people support the duopoly we have in America as well instead of voting for real change.

 

[BluesLegend]

The solution to wealth equality...get a 2nd job losers earn your own damn money and stop mooching off the rest of us.

 

[Blues Man]

We do in fact have way too much. Far more than any deserve or could frivolously spend in ten lifetimes. Like you we are insufferable jerks.

Is that so? Well, anytime you want to get rid of some of that wealth, just let me know. I'll message you my address.

Get a job. Stop whining about what other people have because it's not your business and you're not entitled to any of it.

Now now that's not what Bernie says

 

[Grumblenuts]

We do in fact have way too much. Far more than any deserve or could frivolously spend in ten lifetimes. Like you we are insufferable jerks.

Is that so? Well, anytime you want to get rid of some of that wealth, just let me know. I'll message you my address.

Get a job. Stop whining about what other people have because it's not your business and you're not entitled to any of it.

Now now that's not what Bernie says

Bernie? Who's this Bernie?

 

[petro]

I know Preacher. We go way back. Preacher is a friend of mine. He and I were in business together many years. We both made hundreds of millions and have since multiplied that into billions through smart investment. We are just visitors here trying to help some of those less fortunate. We are the club. Normally we wouldn't be caught dead talking to riff-raff such as yourselves. Especially those so clearly determined to kiss our asses while pretending to be like us.

We do in fact have way too much. Far more than any deserve or could frivolously spend in ten lifetimes. Like you we are insufferable jerks. And pathologically so. But just to clue you in, here's the difference. Just as Carlin said. We really don't care about you. At all. At all.. At least we didn't until more recently. Now we've begun scaring ourselves. We can't even fathom our own wealth these days. It's grown that ridiculous. Some of us are actually beginning to develop a conscience! That's the difference between us. We're beginning to fear for all if no one steps forward to stop us soon. Appears you never will develop any since you'll never catch up which is all you care about. We know. We've been there.

Cool story bro.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Not how it works but its nice you think it does. It would be great if it worked that easily, it would be even better if those that want to go to college can do so without racking up 100k in debt to do so but the system is rigged to enslave people in debt for their entire lives.

No, it's not rigged that way, it's a choice people make. There is no law that says you have to go to college immediately from high school. There is no law that states you have to attend consistently. You can live at home, work for two or three years, save your money, and then attend school until you run out. While you are attending school, you can work part-time, or take off all summer and work full-time to replenish your college money.

Or, even a better choice is take a loan out, and attend a trade school.

Not always. Until 1913 we didn't have a Fed Reserve who manipulated our money and things were NO WHERE near this bad as far as until the 1960's. It will continue to get worse until the system collapses. Without all us workers the CEO's and Presidents of companies have no one to make the products from which they steal the wealth of the working man....all it takes is for a mass walkout and the whole corrupt system collapses.

If you told me you were selling your car, and it's a car I was interested in buying, and I bought that car from you, would you be stealing my wealth? Theft is the act of taking ones property away from them by force or deception. In my car purchase from you, you agreed to give me your car for X money, and I happily agreed to give you my money for your car.

Your employer cannot steal something you didn't have in the first place. You seen an ad in the paper for a job. You went there freely on your own. You agreed to the money and benefits that the job provided. That's not theft.

The difference between you and the CEO or company owner is that if you walk off the job, they will just hire somebody else to do the job. You on the other hand will have a harder time getting a new job with a work record of walking off with no notice.