Wage Gap between richest 1% and poorest 1% by state

How do you feel about this kind of income inequality in America in 2016?

  • This is proof the rich are greedy

  • The rich own everything

  • The rich earned it

  • The poor deserve it

  • This makes our nation stronger

  • This makes our nation weaker

  • It's a sign of impending economic collapse

  • It's a sign of the End Times

  • Pinworm stomps it down the drain

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ttystikk

ttystikk

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SneekyNinja said:
You know who James Dyson is, right?

He literally built his company with his own hands...

Naturally a massive failure would be jealous of success, not all wealthy people are the massive assholes you make them out to be.
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Yes I know him. I have no problem with self made men and women. They could pay their fair share of taxes. The vast majority of the ultra wealthy are NOT self made.

He is absolutely not representative of the average person of extreme wealth and that was exactly my point. Thanks for confirming it.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Padawanbater2 said:
Nonsense
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The more I unpack this subject, the more myths and misconceptions I run into about how people got so rich and how much they 'deserve' it, and therefore the rest of us 'deserve' to be poor.

It's a gigantic crock of the worst kind of shit, benefiting only a tiny few at the expense- very literally- of everyone else...

Including most of those who buy into the mythology. One thing I can say for certain, having personally met many millionaires, a few billionaires and members of such families, is that THEY sure as fuck don't believe it!
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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ttystikk said:
One thing I can say for certain, having personally met many millionaires, a few billionaires and members of such families, is that THEY sure as fuck don't believe it!
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Of course they don't. More often than not, I've personally found that the people that make up the top earners or top wages generally have a pretty sympathetic view of poverty and income inequality.. Yet our critics would have you believe we hate rich people because they're rich.. I don't hate anyone because they're rich. Why would I? There is nothing inherent with being rich that I believe is wrong, aside from the fact that if enough people become so rich, so quickly, they take away from the potential quality of life of those that are on the opposing end of the obscene accumulation of capitalistic wealth.

The only people that actually believe it are inhumane minorities.. actual deplorables
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Padawanbater2 said:
Of course they don't. More often than not, I've personally found that the people that make up the top earners or top wages generally have a pretty sympathetic view of poverty and income inequality.. Yet our critics would have you believe we hate rich people because they're rich.. I don't hate anyone because they're rich. Why would I? There is nothing inherent with being rich that I believe is wrong, aside from the fact that if enough people become so rich, so quickly, they take away from the potential quality of life of those that are on the opposing end of the obscene accumulation of capitalistic wealth.

The only people that actually believe it are inhumane minorities.. actual deplorables
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Many if not most of them would be happy to pay more taxes- as long as they can be sure the money actually goes to do good work, instead of propping up a monstrous military machine or subsidizing the biggest and most successful of mega corporations.

I don't want 'less' government, I want 'better' government. So do the rich.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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ttystikk said:
Many if not most of them would be happy to pay more taxes- as long as they can be sure the money actually goes to do good work, instead of propping up a monstrous military machine or subsidizing the biggest and most successful of mega corporations.

I don't want 'less' government, I want 'better' government. So do the rich.
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I agree. Just like most other issues, it comes down to quantity over quality.. How would the American government reacted to the attack on Pearl Harbor? Addressed slavery, Jim Crow, civil rights? Women's suffrage? ..without a strong federal government?
 
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