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As an aside, I really dislike the term 99%. By a lot of metrics, I'm in the 1%, as I imagine a lot of engineers are. I think it's really the 99.9%. Being in
by seestheday 13y ago
As an aside, I really dislike the term 99%. By a lot of metrics, I'm in the 1%, as I imagine a lot of engineers are.
I think it's really the 99.9%.
Being in the 1% top income in the country kind of rings hollow if you still can't afford a house.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThe real division is labor vs. capital, but for historical reasons its impossible to use that distinction in those terms in public discourse in the US, so you get 99% vs. 1%, Main Street vs. Wall Street, and all kinds of other terms that talk around the real issue.
- seestheday 13y agoInteresting. So you're saying that it boils down to being branded as a communist because of the history of the US. I'm Canadian, so the irrational fear of communism/socialism is much lower here. Not that I'm advocating for communism of course. Any system that honestly believes that a dictatorship[1] needs to be established first and that it will simply "whither away"[2] has been proven by history to be wrong. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state