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Disproportionately is a function of a fact, it's not moral or ethical, it's a statement. I feel bad that you are personally offended by facts. You keep talking

Disproportionately is a function of a fact, it's not moral or ethical, it's a statement. I feel bad that you are personally offended by facts. You keep talking globally without the valid counterpoint. You're mixing American taxation with global outcomes and saying because we have it better off it's not wrong. That's the functional equivalent of telling a person on a sinking ship that they should feel lucky they aren't drowning while you pass by on your yacht. You can always find someone worse off, but wouldn't it be more productive to build the pie by bringing up the bottom rather than pulling up the ladder behind you. You again don't seem to understand facts. It's simple numbers. If money keeps pooling at the top democracy doesn't function, it functionally can't because of the power imbalance and we've seen it more than once in the United States. Since you're asking personally questions I donate large amounts of my personal money because I know my station and came up from poverty, but my lack of hypocrisy isn't the point. The point isn't how much you give it's how much you have left after you've given. The United States is one of the most charitable countries in the world, however that means absolutely nothing because as stated prior, the people at the bottom no longer have the funds to go to the hospital. You seem to be woefully unaware of the reality in the United States, many Americans literally cannot or will not go to the hospital or an emergency room due to cost and a not insignificant percentage of those people either die or end up worse off because of it. Right now in the United States we have literally entire towns and cities that do not have access to clean, safe water, much less electricity and running sewage. Add to that infant mortality rates in the United States are worse than most other developed countries, economic mobility is currently anemic in either direction and has been since Ronald Reagan and nearly half Americans are one or two months away from a foreclosure and homelessness. Just what wonderland do you think most Americans are living in? edit: For terrible, no good, horrible grammar.

kryogen1c 8y ago
> "Disproportionately is a function of a fact, it's not moral or ethical, it's a statement. I feel bad that you are personally offended by facts." If all you are doing is starting the fact that some people have more money than others, that is a correct and useless statement. You very clearly mean to imply that this inequality is morally wrong and should be changed, and I challenge that moral claim as incorrect (and dangerous and self destructive). > That's the functional equivalent of telling a person on a sinking ship that they should feel lucky they aren't drowning while you pass by on your yacht. I have no idea what you're getting at. > If money keeps pooling at the top democracy doesn't function This doesn't have anything to do with taxes, but American campaign finance laws certainly have room for improvement. The constitutional republic is certainly unhinging from the needs of the masses, but I would argue this is a federal government problem, not a money-buys-influence problem. > You seem to be woefully unaware of the reality in the United States I am aware bad things are happening. This is not a reason to totally dismantle the capitalist system that catapulted hundreds of millions of people into an unprecedented standard of living and quality of life the world has never seen. > Add to that infant mortality rates in the United States are worse than most other developed countries This is basically meaningless. The US has ~6 per thousand, and other countries like canada, Germany, and France have 3-5. You sound like you're regurgitating memes you saw on Facebook. http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&series=SH.DYN.MORT&country= http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&ser... https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2091.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... More to my point - those infant mortality rates you're complaining about? Those have dropped at an unprecedented rate continuously for 80 years across the world. > half Americans are one or two months away from a foreclosure and homelessness. What? Everyone that owns a home under mortgage is 3 months from homelessness. It's a bill you have to pay or they take it from you. > Just what wonderland do you think most Americans are living in? America.

kryogen1c 8y ago

> "Disproportionately is a function of a fact, it's not moral or ethical, it's a statement. I feel bad that you are personally offended by facts." If all you are doing is starting the fact that some people have more money than others, that is a correct and useless statement. You very clearly mean to imply that this inequality is morally wrong and should be changed, and I challenge that moral claim as incorrect (and dangerous and self destructive). > That's the functional equivalent of telling a person on a sinking ship that they should feel lucky they aren't drowning while you pass by on your yacht. I have no idea what you're getting at. > If money keeps pooling at the top democracy doesn't function This doesn't have anything to do with taxes, but American campaign finance laws certainly have room for improvement. The constitutional republic is certainly unhinging from the needs of the masses, but I would argue this is a federal government problem, not a money-buys-influence problem. > You seem to be woefully unaware of the reality in the United States I am aware bad things are happening. This is not a reason to totally dismantle the capitalist system that catapulted hundreds of millions of people into an unprecedented standard of living and quality of life the world has never seen. > Add to that infant mortality rates in the United States are worse than most other developed countries This is basically meaningless. The US has ~6 per thousand, and other countries like canada, Germany, and France have 3-5. You sound like you're regurgitating memes you saw on Facebook. http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&series=SH.DYN.MORT&country= http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&ser... https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2091.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... More to my point - those infant mortality rates you're complaining about? Those have dropped at an unprecedented rate continuously for 80 years across the world. > half Americans are one or two months away from a foreclosure and homelessness. What? Everyone that owns a home under mortgage is 3 months from homelessness. It's a bill you have to pay or they take it from you. > Just what wonderland do you think most Americans are living in? America.