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I agree. The level of economic struggle in the US is unnecessary. At what point do we people stand in solidarity to remedy this state of affairs? We did that

• sokoloff 6y ago
  It’s a math problem. The US standard of living is fairly high and that’s expensive to maintain. Pick a number in your mind of how much money the government should guarantee every adult citizen every year. If you seized all the wealth of every US billionaire and gave it equally to all US citizens 18 or older, each citizen would receive less than $20K. Not per year, but once ever. There’s a lot of people demanding a lot of goods and services and most of that work is an actual grind. There’s a difference between saying (obviously correctly) that gay people, black people, women should all be equally able to participate in the economic engine. It’s another thing entirely to eliminate the heat, friction, and struggle in that engine.
  • ddingus 6y ago
    Oh don't know, with wages basically flat for decades, the people would very likely be much better off having taken home the tens of trillions they didn't. In that scenario, we would be talking about a small number of people, and the word unnecessary would be much harder to support. That real grind matters. Without it, even more of us are worse off. I agree it is a math problem, but disagree on framing it in immediate terms and in mere dollar terms. Just insuring everyone can see the doctor costs the nation less and makes more of the dollars earned liquid. There are a lot of things we can do to improve on the struggle. That does not have to mean dollars paid directly to people.