Wealth Gap: A single image is worth a thousand words...
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Wealth Gap: A single image is worth a thousand words...
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“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few...”
“The world is waking up...”
“And change is coming whether you like it or not...”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=7995
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few...”
“The world is waking up...”
“And change is coming whether you like it or not...”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
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...a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet, rather than to foretell, the future."
~ Carl Becker, 1873-1945, U.S. historian
Far from accepting the current economic situation as inevitable, the history of income inequality in the U.S. is evidence that government policies tilt the balance of economic compensation in favor of the rich.
With the past centuries being disproportionately favorable to the wealthy, and the fact that greater income inequality has been correlated with higher levels of crime, stress, mental illness, and some other social ills, it's about time to start leveling the playing field...
Overcoming Poverty In America Is Not an Act of Charity, It Is an Act of Justice.
3 questions:
1. What do you do for a living?
2. How much do you make a year?
3. What percentage of that do you donate to all the causes you talk about here?
No one would write out Greta’s name like that unless they were busting balls.
I don’t mean rich necessarily, but a good life. No one can seriously dispute that.
It’s not like that everywhere, which is why there’s migration here.
It’s the result of ambitious innovators, many of whom form corporations, who exchange part of the wealth they created with those who will work for it.
Henry Ford lifted a lot more people into a comfortable middle class life than LBJ and his Great Society.
People slowly dying because of no recourse with their Healthcare costs.
America can be a literal hell.
Hard work doesn't mean anything. Were all at the mercy of capitalist greed
The gini coefficient in California is .49
The gini coefficient in Utah is .40
Maybe the two individuals who are unhappy in this thread could go over there instead. 😁
To real answer your question:
Why is America different and exceptional when it comes to wealth and abundance ?
It is a product of imperialism/capitalism, which was facilitated by centuries of domination attained through occupation and economic exploitation of indigenous people.”
The US today, is wealthier, richer, because these riches were acquired at the expense of the people of color they “colonized“
I assume that CJKent is in the 80% of the population and he is very, very angry about that to which I suggest he get over it.
That’s not a comfortable fact for those who like to criticize western culture. They prefer to imagine a garden of Eden prior to the white man.
Similarly, countries that were colonized in the 19th and early 20th century got the benefit of infrastructure and a judicial system that was in place when they gained their independence. The modern citizens in those countries are arguably better off than if there had never been a period of colonization.
But, that doesn’t match up with “ white people evil, people of color victims”. There are a mix of good and bad people within any group.
Those you call “great industrialists” are also called "robber barons", because of the less than honorable deeds they perform to create wealth like poor conditions for workers, and killing workers that asked for better working conditions.
Only because such people were able to amass great amounts of capital could our country become the world's greatest “industrial power” also called “American imperialism”, using military conquest, gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, subsidization of preferred factions, economic penetration through private companies followed by intervention when those interests are threatened, or regime change.
All these “innovations” to “create wealth” also have enabled our present-day standard of living such is the banking-debt slavery system of America and the western empires, the newest, most ingenious form of slavery in the history of mankind.
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Money has made slaves of us…
Money is the curse of mankind.
It smothers the seed of everything great and good.
Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”
~ Paul Joseph Goebbels
~ Doctor of Philology, University of Heidelberg, Germany 1921.
~ Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (1933 - 1945)
~ Born 29 October 1897 Rheydt, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Germany)
~ Died 1 May 1945 (aged 47) Berlin, Germany
Let's be hardcore money slaves so we don't wind up like Nazi Germany.