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Are you surprised that people are upset when resources that used to be local are spread thinly across the globe? Forgive them, when they don't jump for joy. Y

Are you surprised that people are upset when resources that used to be local are spread thinly across the globe? Forgive them, when they don't jump for joy. You ignore the very real feeling they must be having when they can't afford a home. You ignore how they must feel when they put off marriage, and having children, because they're living paycheck to paycheck. You ignore how it must feel to wonder if you'll ever retire, feeling like you just barely missed the "good times". Its happening in our country, in our neighborhoods, to good people. It's no wonder Trump's slogan was "Make America Great Again". People eat that shit up right now. The standard of living is dropping and the middle and lower classes are feeling it the worst. But hurray, global poverty is down. There's a real dilution to the western experience happening right now and it's naïve to brush off the woes of your countryman with the idealistic perspective of a global poverty lift.

pavlov 9y ago
The wealthiest 20% of Americans have experienced the opposite of dilution over the past 40 years. Meanwhile the other 80% kept voting for policies that were actively working against spreading the income surplus more evenly. When they finally woke up to what’s happening, the blame goes on Chinese and Africans — because anything else would be suspiciously close to an argument for socialism.
- iamnothere 9y ago
  > Meanwhile the other 80% kept voting for policies that were actively working against spreading the income surplus more evenly. That would be a fair criticism, but I don't see any major party candidates advocating for wealth redistribution. Maybe if someone was allowed to offer an argument for limited socialism then we could actually vote on it and try it out. The only semi-socialist candidate in recent memory who came close to winning the primary was railroaded through a combination of systems that favor the status quo (superdelegates), a media that alternately ignored and attacked his candidacy, and a party that actively schemed against him while nominally allowing him to run. All this after we elected a president who ran as the "change" candidate and promised to hold big banks accountable, only to stick the taxpayers with the bailout bill, increase the scope of domestic spying programs, and implement a flawed health care scheme dreamed up by the Republicans. I can understand why people are pissed. I can also understand why some might choose to vote for their narrow self-interest, given the state of our democracy.
  - shdh 9y ago
    >I don't see any major party candidates advocating for wealth redistribution Forget regulatory recapture, we're at the stage of government recapture.
tekkk 9y ago
George Carlin said it well: "Good honest hard-workin people CONTINUE -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these RICH COCKSUCKERS who don't GIVE a fuck about them."[1]. I can't say that I didn't feel bad for them but this has been long time coming. How come countries like Germany are at the same time booming, is it because there is something intrinsically different about the two populations? We are not just leaves in a stream floating around aimlessly, the people themselves have to try and change the current status quo. If the system in place does not provide a way to do it or does it inefficiently (how I view Trump election win) it does a disservice to its people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ
- Clubber 9y ago
  I don't remember having the choice to vote for a non-rich cocksucker who give a fuck about me.
  - mrhappyunhappy 9y ago
    That’s your govt. buttfucking you. Sorry. Complacency has its costs.

pavlov 9y ago

The wealthiest 20% of Americans have experienced the opposite of dilution over the past 40 years. Meanwhile the other 80% kept voting for policies that were actively working against spreading the income surplus more evenly. When they finally woke up to what’s happening, the blame goes on Chinese and Africans — because anything else would be suspiciously close to an argument for socialism.

iamnothere 9y ago
> Meanwhile the other 80% kept voting for policies that were actively working against spreading the income surplus more evenly. That would be a fair criticism, but I don't see any major party candidates advocating for wealth redistribution. Maybe if someone was allowed to offer an argument for limited socialism then we could actually vote on it and try it out. The only semi-socialist candidate in recent memory who came close to winning the primary was railroaded through a combination of systems that favor the status quo (superdelegates), a media that alternately ignored and attacked his candidacy, and a party that actively schemed against him while nominally allowing him to run. All this after we elected a president who ran as the "change" candidate and promised to hold big banks accountable, only to stick the taxpayers with the bailout bill, increase the scope of domestic spying programs, and implement a flawed health care scheme dreamed up by the Republicans. I can understand why people are pissed. I can also understand why some might choose to vote for their narrow self-interest, given the state of our democracy.
- shdh 9y ago
  >I don't see any major party candidates advocating for wealth redistribution Forget regulatory recapture, we're at the stage of government recapture.

tekkk 9y ago

George Carlin said it well: "Good honest hard-workin people CONTINUE -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these RICH COCKSUCKERS who don't GIVE a fuck about them."[1]. I can't say that I didn't feel bad for them but this has been long time coming. How come countries like Germany are at the same time booming, is it because there is something intrinsically different about the two populations? We are not just leaves in a stream floating around aimlessly, the people themselves have to try and change the current status quo. If the system in place does not provide a way to do it or does it inefficiently (how I view Trump election win) it does a disservice to its people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ

Clubber 9y ago
I don't remember having the choice to vote for a non-rich cocksucker who give a fuck about me.
- mrhappyunhappy 9y ago
  That’s your govt. buttfucking you. Sorry. Complacency has its costs.