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The ever-increasing income disparity in the US was eventually going to become a breakdown (and a class war). It will happen sooner, thanks to this unexpected g
by blunte 6y ago
The ever-increasing income disparity in the US was eventually going to become a breakdown (and a class war). It will happen sooner, thanks to this unexpected global health crisis.
Are they really going to throw the guy who stocks their Walmart shelves out on the street? If they do, who will stock the shelves? Who will work the meat factories?
I have come to believe that the ruling elite must on average be low intelligence, or at least incapable of simple reasoning. Personal greed has displaced nearly every other thought. Unfortunately, the stark realization may not occur for another generation; so those who have done the most damage will likely be dead without ever paying a personal cost.
- mrfox321 6y agoWell if you consider the fact that the wealth of the elite is generally inherited, they should be no smarter than anyone else.
- twic 6y agoSeems like the elite have inherited the ability to downvote just fine!
- myth_drannon 6y agoYes, but the elites can afford the best education to their children, better food. So the children are smarter and after a couple of generations, the gap is huge. That's how meritocracy fails, first the smart and hard-working become wealthy but then they invest in their children more and more.
- blunte 6y agoI don't know the actual numbers, but I believe that the elites' wealth has multiplied much more than it has been inherited. That is to say, inheritance is not the problem - extreme leverage of various kinds is the problem.
- myth_drannon 6y agoMore likely it will become like Brazil. The middle class is very small and segregated groups that live in protected neighbourhoods.
- nine_zeros 6y agoThis. America has been slowly degrading into an administratively third world country for the past 4 years. Anyone who can say that their life materially improved is living in walled gardens. For the rest, its peasantry.
- glogla 6y agoI'm pretty sure that course was set by Reagan and nobody after him really tried to change it. Obama gave some lip service (with ACA) but his treatment of Occupy Wall Street shows his true colors.
- blunte 6y agoYes. This has been developing sing Reagan and the "trickle down" theory was hatched.
- PoachedSausage 6y agoIt seems humans are bad at long-term thinking, the ongoing environmental collapse is evidence of it. We're quite smart on short time scales but then seem to become yeast-like on longer time scales.