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I always assumed it meant the 70 million richest people on the planet, you know those rich people with college degrees who have time to hang out in parks and co
by fleitz 10y ago
I always assumed it meant the 70 million richest people on the planet, you know those rich people with college degrees who have time to hang out in parks and complain about how the world no longer treats them any better than anyone else.
It seems they want their taxes increased and that money sent to Bangladesh to make for less income inequality.
Despite their college degrees I suspect they are innumerate and have a difficult time understanding meanings of words that don't favor their privileged position in the world.
- turnip1979 10y agoDepends on the country. In many developed counties with social assistance, you will see hordes of unemployed people at the malls and at parks. Doing .. nothing. I'm all for social assistance but we are destroying the middle class.
- fleitz 10y agoAs far as I'm aware there are 7 billion people on the planet... Yes, the middle class in America is losing people to the upper class at a 2:1 ratio to the lower class, if this continues 66% of people will be in the upper classes in the next few generations.
- tremon 10y agoyou will see hordes of unemployed people at the malls and at parks. Doing .. nothing That's odd. I mostly see employed people at malls and in parks. How do you tell them apart? Or do you just assume that they're unemployed, because they're in a park, doing nothing?
- devishard 10y agoI'd rather give $100 billion to 2 million people and have 1 million of them do nothing than give $100 billion to 1 person and have 1 million people starve. Social assistance programs are so meager and inexpensive compared to the cut we give to the finance industry. It's ridiculous to begrudge social assistance to people who need it just because some people who receive it don't. Frankly, I'm just not offended that some people don't work. There aren't useful things for a lot of people to do. I'm much more offended that some people are rewarded incomprehensible amounts of money which no human can possibly be worth, often for activities that are actively harmful.
- sgift 10y agoTranslation: Hey, someone else has it even worse than you, why aren't you happy?! This completely ignores that you can be better off than someone else and still live in a shitty situation, but it sounds so nice ..
- fleitz 10y agoYou can be in any situation and still live in a shitty situation. That's why many philosophies boil down to: you're going to be dead soon, you might as well start enjoying it, and if you're not... well... you know what to do. Only in America would people who borrowed money to take a 4 year sabbatical be complaining about being poor.
- lovich 10y agoIf Bangladesh wants to become part of one of these countries and follow all of their laws and regulations, then sure your argument could make some sense. Whats happening here is people railing against inequality inside of their own political systems.