It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous,
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“It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people . . . It is the struggling masses who are the foundation of this country; and if the foundation be rotten or insecure, the rest of the structure must eventually crumble.”
~ Victoria California Claflin aka Victoria Woodhull
~ American leader of the women's suffrage movement
~ Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States and Frederick Douglass for Vice President of the United States in the 1872 presidential election for the Equal Rights Party.
~ Born September 23, 1838 Homer, Ohio, US
~ Died June 9, 1927 Bredon, Worcestershire, UK
“It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people . . . It is the struggling masses who are the foundation of this country; and if the foundation be rotten or insecure, the rest of the structure must eventually crumble.”
~ Victoria California Claflin aka Victoria Woodhull
~ American leader of the women's suffrage movement
~ Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States and Frederick Douglass for Vice President of the United States in the 1872 presidential election for the Equal Rights Party.
~ Born September 23, 1838 Homer, Ohio, US
~ Died June 9, 1927 Bredon, Worcestershire, UK
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Out of 328 million? Yes that's only about 6% of the population. I might just be one of them.
We have the highest wealth inequality of all G7 countries. Billionaires engage in ego trip space flights while people starve on the ground.
(still I wouldn’t mind having $1 million to access now.)
I'd be happy with a living standard like they have in Finland or Switzerland. Very laissez Faire economies but without being the plutocratic shithole the US is.
~ Salvador Antonio Edmundo Espiridión y Francisco de Paula Díaz Ibáñez
~ nom de plume: Salvador Díaz Mirón
~ Poet, Writer, Journalist
~ Born 14 December 1853 Veracruz, Mexico
~ Died 12 June 1928 (aged 74) Veracruz, Mexico
SJG
nicespice distributes her glorious boobatar to all of us equally, who needs more Socialism than that?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Adios, poor thread.
~ President Gerald Ford
Considering that, quite unremarkable that before he could be President, Gerald Ford served on the Warren Commission.
SJG
Rainbow - Stone Cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByGwgm_…
https://tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=7645…
And Mexican construction workers are still often living 10 to a room and sleeping in shifts, and also working without union protection or representation.
I have worked alongside former construction workers. They did that during summers when they were in school.
I worked along side a guy who worked on the NY subways, getting double time and triple overtime. Now they do other things where they don't get any overtime. They want to use other skills.
The construction industry is about 8% of the economy. You cannot force everyone into that. And most real long and deep recessions start with a real estate over build, and then the market freezing up, developers going bust, even the lending institutions going bust, and then there being no construction for a decade.
The greatest purchasing power for the working man ran from 1969 to 1972. Since then it has been on the downslide, further and further each year, forcing more and more people into things like Uber, Lyft, and Instacart.
We are turning into a third world country, and much of this is directly traceable to changes made during the Reagan Administration.
SJG
In the United States racism is baked into the creation of the United Stay of America itself, in the society and laws, it can, undeniably, be seen in the entire culture and history of the country, from the Declaration of Independence to today.
America’s institutions, the government, education, and culture, all contribute or reinforce, to this day, the oppression of marginalized social groups of poor people of every color and nationality while protecting dominant social groups of mainly rich white elites and their allies of every color and nationality.
“When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go...
And then you know you’re winning!”
“I have Asperger’s and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm,” she added. “And — given the right circumstances — being different is a superpower.”
“The world is waking up...
And change is coming whether you like it or not.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
Awards
* Fritt Ord Award (2019)
* Rachel Carson Prize (2019)
* Ambassador of Conscience Award (2019)
* Right Livelihood Award (2019)
* International Children's Peace Prize (2019)
* Time Person of the Year (2019)
* Nordic Council Environment Prize (declined) (2019)
* Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2020
Honors
~ Doctor honoris causa, University of Mons
Books:
~ No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Scenes from the Heart
A collection of eleven speeches which she has written and presented about global warming and the climate crisis.
Based on what you say Mr. Skibum the smart EU countries a conning the stupid Americans into paying for their defense while they party on.
Maybe you like loser America but I like the WINNER countries!
Wait, you hate America too. Seems to me like you should also like the EU conning the stupid Americans. I guess we’re on the same side after all. Yay!
1. Everyone in the class gets $100 but the tallest person ( not you ) gets $500
2. Everyone in the class gets $25. No one gets more.
Ooo ooo I’ve got a better psych 101 experiment!
Everybody pays $1 to enter a lottery to win a car. But you win and it turns out to be a 1977 Mercury Bobcat.
Turns out the professor just wanted to get rid of his old Bobcat. And he made money! Yay!
Think of a healthy 25 year old guy, who makes $20,000 a year, lives in his parents' basement, and has 6-pack abs. Three times a week, he goes dutch with a hot chick to Taco Bell, then she fucks him in the basement for hours. I'd rather be him than Bezos.
Yes the government needs to help people suffering true hardships, and that will mean higher taxes on the wealthy. That might lower inequality as a side-effect, but I don't see how lower inequality is a good thing by itself. Once people are out of hardship, you can't be sure you'll make them happy just by throwing money at them. And you may very well collapse the whole society by trying that shit. Western Europe started in that direction in the 70s, and pulled back from it.
A workable form of Communism is the government distributes a lifelike Rosa Acosta sex android to all. As Rosa-droid is fucking your brains out, you will no longer worry about how much money Jeff Bezos has.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
- Carl Sagan
Anyhoo, I’m posting on this lame-o thread because I need to ricksplain something to the idiot ape who would rather be some basement loser ape makin’ $20K a year than Jeff Bezos. That may make sense if you’re a Cheetos lovin’ loser ape makin’ $10K a year by sellin’ your bodily fluids, but trust me...Bezos-ape has a better life than you.
Now Bezos-ape does not have a life that rick-better, because our intangible traits - our ricktangibles if you will - make our lives better than those of any other creature on the planet. But Bezos-ape comes in a close second. I mean really, he BLASTED HIMSELF INTO SPACE ON A GIANT ROCKET DICK.
Of course, his rocket dick was based off a rick dick, so we still come out on top. ROAR!!!
Back then, we had anarchists who told us the system was screwed. The little guy would never get ahead. Sound familiar ?
But even today, there are large numbers of people who were totally cut out, and underclass and an untouchable class.
Created specifically to deal with the kinds of poverty which have been created by industrial capitalism.
https://ssvpusa.org/about-us/mission-and…
SJG
Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…
SJG
“It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous,
but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people . . .
It is the struggling masses who are the foundation of this country;
and if the foundation be rotten or insecure,
the rest of the structure must eventually crumble.”
~ Victoria California Claflin aka Victoria Woodhull
~ American leader of the women's suffrage movement
~ Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States and Frederick Douglass for Vice President of the United States in the 1872 presidential election for the Equal Rights Party.
~ Born September 23, 1838 Homer, Ohio, US
~ Died June 9, 1927 Bredon, Worcestershire, UK