Hello and welcome to JPP, Quincunx.
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Quincunx
Yup. We all heard that. And the minute I hear that some finance-obsessed bean counter has to do the same job as me to not retire in penury I'll believe that it is a fair system.
As one commentator I once heard say: we are all forced into the stock market in order to provide the capital that finance folks play their risky games with. They need the unwashed masses putting money into the system. And since not every person in the US is a financial maven the financial sector games players are counting on that money just sitting there.
I have no clue how to read the stock market but my entire future existence is a function of that. That's why I want finance people to have to do MY JOB as well so they can face this kind of fear.
American capitalism is the practice of doing everything conceivably possible to legally extract wealth and productivity from workers and consumers, while delivering as little as possible in return. The goal is to make the richest richer without regard for anyone else.
That is what drives the Republican party, whether they are aware of it, admit it, or not. That is where commanding part of the campaign and super PAC money comes from. And if a practice is not legal they will seek to make it legal whenever the legally corrupt government is under their control.
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