The top 1% of earners is finally earning more than the entire middle class

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885932]Even if that were true, you can't just automatically attribute that to some corrupt system.

It could also be due to[B] people's poor spending habits.[/B][/QUOTE]
I will give you one example... bank deregulation. Want to take a guess what group saw their wealth decrease and what group saw their wealth increase?

That loss in home value reappeared in the recovery of the stock market. Want to take a guess which group has much greater share of their assets in stocks to recover their losses?

When you say something like the bold, you are thanking these people for robbing you blind because you can trample on someone less fortunate. You are not worried about doing better for yourself. Your primary concern is making sure there is always gonna be someone below you. That attitude is holding everyone back because it fractures any attempt at massive organization to claim enough power that will produce real effective change.

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885946]So "the state" determines what you are and aren't allowed to have? "The state" provides everything? Including how much money you get to have?

And this sounds like a positive thing to you?[/QUOTE]

It is what we have been working toward from the start. Everything is provided, anything we want automated at the snap of a figure. Everyone is wealthy. No one needs to work. Everyone is in good health.

It has everything to do with advancements in technology, and nothing to do with politics. Which is something society today seems to ignore. Technology is what is shaping the quality our lives, not Trump or Biden.

[QUOTE=Charlie Sheen;14885948]I will give you one example... bank deregulation. Want to take a guess what group saw their wealth decrease and what group saw their wealth increase?

That loss in home value reappeared in the recovery of the stock market. Want to take a guess which group has much greater share of their assets in stocks to recover their losses?

When you say something like the bold, you are thanking these people for robbing you blind because you can trample on someone less fortunate. You are not worried about doing better for yourself. Your primary concern is making sure there is always gonna be someone below you. That attitude is holding everyone back because it fractures any attempt at massive organization to claim enough power that will produce real effective change.[/QUOTE]

You're making an awful lot of assumptions about what I think.

I don't doubt the powers that be secretly doing what they can to horde more wealth for themselves. I'm just saying that's not a reason to ignore personal responsibility.

I can't just automatically assume that because someone is living check to check, it's the fault of some corrupt system. I would need to know what their spending habits are as well. There are plenty of people who don't save money and live above their means.

[QUOTE=Bill Gates;14885949]It is what we have been working toward from the start. Everything is provided, anything we want automated at the snap of a figure. Everyone is wealthy. No one needs to work. Everyone is in good health.

It has everything to do with advancements in technology, and nothing to do with politics. Which is something society today seems to ignore. Technology is what is shaping the quality our lives, not Trump or Biden.[/QUOTE]

When you say everything is "provided"... provided by who? The state? Okay well who's funding the state?

More importantly, who is overseeing the state?

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885950]You're making an awful lot of assumptions about what I think.

I don't doubt the powers that be secretly doing what they can to horde more wealth for themselves. I'm just saying that's not a reason to ignore personal responsibility.

I can't just automatically assume that because someone is living check to check, it's the fault of some corrupt system. I would need to know what their spending habits are as well. There are plenty of people who don't save money and live above their means.[/QUOTE]

Fair.

People want to live near job centers. Census data reflects that majority of those people are burdened by the cost of rent [url]https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/12/housing-costs-burden.html[/url]

Their margin for savings are shrinking.

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885951]When you say everything is "provided"... provided by who? The state? Okay well who's funding the state?

More importantly, who is overseeing the state?[/QUOTE]No one knows yet, not that it's relevant to that particular conversation. There WILL be a point where automation takes over any job a human can do, and be able to do it better. At that point, there will be no jobs offered people, thus commerce will cease to exist altogether. How is Coca Cola supposed to sell their products if no one has jobs because everyone's unemployed?

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885951]When you say everything is "provided"... provided by who? The state? Okay well who's funding the state?

More importantly, who is overseeing the state?[/QUOTE]

Provided by AI and automation, robots. Technology. Your home computer. Your metaverse code, etc. You won't be seeing a doctor or other humans for your health needs, you'll be seeing AI in your own home. A home that was created by robots at to your exact liking. You won't care about ownership because there is no longer a reason to care.

Again, you don't need to worry about this, because you won't live to see it. I am just pointing out that we are headed toward pure communism anyway.

[QUOTE=Bill Gates;14885954]Provided by AI and automation, robots. Technology. Your home computer. Your metaverse code, etc. You won't be seeing a doctor or other humans for your health needs, you'll be seeing AI in your own home. A home that was created by robots at to your exact liking. You won't care about ownership because there is no longer a reason to care.

Again, you don't need to worry about this, because you won't live to see it. I am just pointing out that we are headed toward pure communism anyway.[/QUOTE]It's in our nature to destroy ourselves before then anyways.

[QUOTE=j3lademaster;14885955]It's in our nature to destroy ourselves before then anyways.[/QUOTE]

I disagree. Humanity will conquer space, death, and everything else. There may be some rough bumps along the way, but the future is ours and we will take it.

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885925]I don't know, I seem to recall one side being very insistent on re-opening businesses and getting kids back to school as soon as they could. In fact those cities and states were demonized for doing so.

Meanwhile I remember the other side fighting tooth and nail to keep the lockdowns going indefinitely for as long as they could, except of course when it came to the St. Floyd celebrations.

We will not allow you vax boys to rewrite history on this.[/QUOTE]
So your position is that the Republican Party is doing things to address the wealth gap?

Are you retarded?

[QUOTE=Charlie Sheen;14885948]I will give you one example... bank deregulation. Want to take a guess what group saw their wealth decrease and what group saw their wealth increase?

That loss in home value reappeared in the recovery of the stock market. Want to take a guess which group has much greater share of their assets in stocks to recover their losses?

When you say something like the bold, you are thanking these people for robbing you blind because you can trample on someone less fortunate. You are not worried about doing better for yourself. Your primary concern is making sure there is always gonna be someone below you. That attitude is holding everyone back because it fractures any attempt at massive organization to claim enough power that will produce real effective change.[/QUOTE]
:applause: :applause: :applause:

[QUOTE=RRR3;14885963]So your position is that the Republican Party is doing things to address the wealth gap?

Are you retarded?[/QUOTE]


"Are you retarded?"

- asks the so called anti-establishment anarchist who willingly volunteered to take an experimental government vaccine


:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:

Vax cucks squirming hard while trying to re write history :roll: :roll:

this is peak mental illness

[QUOTE=Baller234;14885965]"Are you retarded?"

- asks the so called anti-establishment anarchist who willingly volunteered to take an experimental government vaccine


:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:[/QUOTE]
Poor guy couldn’t even answer the question :yaohappy:

[QUOTE=Charlie Sheen;14885919]He is saying the pandemic is disguising a fire that was already raging. Wealth redistribution to the 1% has been coming out of your pocket or your parents pockets for the last 40 years.[/QUOTE]

I agree with that rich people have been scamming the system since forever everywhere. That doesn't discount that the plandemic was purposely orchestrated to light that fire even harder.