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>Inequality of results is a logical result of capitalism. You can't have the cake and eat it too. This is absurd. There are people who are making hundreds of m
by TheAdamAndChe 10y ago
>Inequality of results is a logical result of capitalism. You can't have the cake and eat it too.
This is absurd. There are people who are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year while tens of thousands of people work minimum wage jobs because that's all they can get, and you're saying that it's their fault for not producing more? You really need to realize that our quality of life isn't because we are so amazing, but because of the opportunities our position in the world and society have given us. And in America, those opportunities are being offered to fewer and fewer people: economic mobility is declining, and has for a while[1]. A person can only pull on their bootstraps so hard.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to-rise-from-lower-rungs.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to...