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I like it how it is now, and I'll fight people like you to keep it that way.

• imtringued 4y ago
• elzbardico 4y ago
  I also like how it is now, I make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and now I even can live in a very cheap place. And I once thought like you. But then, one day, I figured out that I was in the minority. And I have a choice: I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday. Yes, maybe they would end up worse in the end. But I would be dead—a terrible score by my standards. My goal is to avoid a revolution. People like you merrily stride towards it by being wholly insensible and fighting people like me. Ask the Romanoff royal family if they don't think they should have been less stubborn in hindsight.
  • chii 4y ago
    > I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday. why are these the only possible choices? Why can't the third option, one where the poor also get richer (compared to their poorer past) through growth, and improvements in tech? because that was what has been happening for the past several hundred years, and a lot of it in the past 100 years. Some people didn't get ahead as far as some others - but the poor of today are still better off than poor of several centuries ago. if you look at countries that have had revolutions that stripped the rich of their wealth, how have they fared today?
    • elzbardico 4y ago
      Well, we have been growing like crazy the last 20 years. But unless you live under a rock, it is clear that now the bulk of the gains are not going to workers. Yes, they did in the past, but the tendency now is of ever increasing wealth and income concentration. Something changed. your thinking worked for a world that is left in the past, now we need other answers.