American wealth distribution - is this a problem

[Code]

So why don't we cut the bullshit and take things to their logical conclusion? Anyone deemed surplus to requirements, such as people not as smart as Code, the elderly, the sick, those with bad luck, short people, fat people etc be gassed and industrially processed to make a fabulous new road surface. That should free up traffic nicely.

YAY!

I will publish a manifesto of properties everyone must have to be considered for the new world to come.

 

[HappyScrappy]

I plan on being in the top .1% within the next 10 years.

I actually plan on being there in the next 5, but I'm giving myself a little cushion

whoever was saying we should go Hitler, while that seems like a good idea at first - "kill everyone that isn't me - because I sure like me" - history has taught us that is bad. because then everyone wants to fight you and you end up dead.

my mom always say that I worry her and that I tend to take the wrong lessons from things.

 

[GinNJuice]

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In terms of true wealth I would bet you everything I OWN that you will never get in the top 1%. You weren't born to it, your not getting it and if you think again.

Wodin, that would probably be a pretty good bet. However, I am constantly trying to improve my situation, so you never know.

I am safely into the 10% area though..... not bad for a poor kid that didn't have food for days.

 

[Code]

I plan on being in the top .1% within the next 10 years.

I actually plan on being there in the next 5, but I'm giving myself a little cushion

whoever was saying we should go Hitler, while that seems like a good idea at first - "kill everyone that isn't me - because I sure like me" - history has taught us that is bad. because then everyone wants to fight you and you end up dead.

my mom always say that I worry her and that I tend to take the wrong lessons from things.

Nah, no one liked Hitler because of the mustache. His rumba skills almost made up for the mutache....almost.

 

[HappyScrappy]

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I am safely into the 10% area though..... not bad for a poor kid that didn't have food for days.

I hear that.

growing up poor has given me a weird outlook on life.
at least, I think that is the cause.

I wonder if I had grown up wealthy if I would have a singled minded focus and drive on money and hate everyone that isn't me like I do now?

 

[Doktor Bollix]

What amuses me is that some of you responded like you are in the top .1%,which we all know to be a lie.

Excellent point, but that is the American way, people actually think that if they talk-the-talk, they can walk-the-walk by proxy. Like if you put your nose up at the poor and pretend you are rich and bitch about the Bottom Feeders, that makes you vicariously rich, and the real thing will magically happen to you.

That's why so many poor people vote Republican.

 

[Code]

Excellent point, but that is the American way, people actually think that if they talk-the-talk, they can walk-the-walk by proxy. Like if you put your nose up at the poor and pretend you are rich and bitch about the Bottom Feeders, that makes you vicariously rich, and the real thing will magically happen to you.

That's why so many poor people vote Republican.

Most poor who vote republican do so because they own guns and like owning guns and often use them to get their food ( as in hunting).

I vote republican because I like owning my guns, and I hate the UN along with some blatant party lines I'll spare you the time of reading them.

Except in an online environment I don't know many people who walk a different walk. But then I don't walk through many trailer parks or ghettos.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Top income earners = People who busted their ass, except for 2% of them who had their money handed to them, which is fine, I don't want money handed to me that I haven't earned anyway.

It's the lazy indigent trailer park residents who have issues with the distribution of wealth. They feel they should be given money simply for being a US citizen or because other people have "too much" money.

Yes, half the country that is under $26k is lazy and indigent. That must be it.

90% of the country is under $80,000 per year. 80K is not really that much.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Excellent point, but that is the American way, people actually think that if they talk-the-talk, they can walk-the-walk by proxy. Like if you put your nose up at the poor and pretend you are rich and bitch about the Bottom Feeders, that makes you vicariously rich, and the real thing will magically happen to you.

That's why so many poor people vote Republican.

This must be the mindset of people who lease expensive cars and buy everything on credit. The "I am not one of them" mentality.

Our society's depiction of the poor as "bad" has done more to isolate them and cause scorn, yet how does our society really benefit from having a large number of poor people?

 

[Doktor Bollix]

It's a fact that most wealth in America is inherited.

This Darwinian notion of wealth distribution was used to justify appalling expoitation of workers in Europe during the 18th and 19th century and provoked revolutions and the development of communism. So long term it's not a winner.

Rich people really aren't any better than people further down the trough, people like YOU.