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The Dude said:
Awh
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Actually that's a very valid point made by this editorial cartoon. The primary risk to our society and our democracy is inequality. Gross inequality is politically destabilizing. Look at all the great revolutions and political mass movements and great rebellions and the collapse of the great empires and republics of history. Inequality was the primary source of political destabilization that led to these great revolutions and collapse of empires.
 
Unicron said:
Why do you want fewer Americans working?
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Why work if you're going to starve anyways?

Look, I'm not big on redistribution but we have seen an extraordinary rise in productivity in this nation over the last 40 years. Productivity that has, for the most part, been created by the skill, knowledge, hard work and work ethic of the American work force of which they have seen virtually none of the profits of that increased productivity. As inequality increases and fewer control vast wealth produced mostly by an incredibly skilled and productive work force and as more and more people d not profit from the results of their labor and drop out of the middle class or find it more difficult to maintain a middle class living or to rise to middle class or higher standard of living despite their best efforts it won't take a sooth sayer to predict increased political destabilization within our society.

This is the essential problem that gross inequality creates. It would be very short sighted to blow this off with canned catch phrases and strawmen arguments.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Actually that's a very valid point made by this editorial cartoon. The primary risk to our society and our democracy is inequality. Gross inequality is politically destabilizing. Look at all the great revolutions and political mass movements and great rebellions and the collapse of the great empires and republics of history. Inequality was the primary source of political destabilization that led to these great revolutions and collapse of empires.
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You've never owned or run a business have you?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Why work if you're going to starve anyways?

Look, I'm not big on redistribution but we have seen an extraordinary rise in productivity in this nation over the last 40 years. Productivity that has, for the most part, been created by the skill, knowledge, hard work and work ethic of the American work force of which they have seen virtually none of the profits of that increased productivity. As inequality increases and fewer control vast wealth produced mostly by an incredibly skilled and productive work force and as more and more people d not profit from the results of their labor and drop out of the middle class or find it more difficult to maintain a middle class living or to rise to middle class or higher standard of living despite their best efforts it won't take a sooth sayer to predict increased political destabilization within our society.

This is the essential problem that gross inequality creates. It would be very short sighted to blow this off with canned catch phrases and strawmen arguments.
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Hmmm... has it occurred to you that the off shoring lefties bemoan hasimproved productivity by eliminating the unproductive ? Least pairs regression at work. When labor overvalues its worth it cuts its own throat. Actions have consequences.
 
Celticguy said:
Hmmm... has it occurred to you that the off shoring lefties bemoan hasimproved productivity by eliminating the unproductive ? Least pairs regression at work. When labor overvalues its worth it cuts its own throat. Actions have consequences.
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Really? Than why has the American work force over the last 40 years been the most productive work force in HUMAN HISTORY?

That's the problem with you political ideologues. Facts mean nothing to you. Ideology everything even when it means you drag everyone else down, including yourselves.

Try sticking to the historical facts I stated and try disputing them.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Really? Than why has the American work force over the last 40 years been the most productive work force in HUMAN HISTORY?

That's the problem with you political ideologues. Facts mean nothing to you. Ideology everything even when it means you drag everyone else down, including yourselves.

Try sticking to the historical facts I stated and try disputing them.
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Because it eliminated the unproductive, added consistantly accurate robotics and generally kept pruning the deadwood. You cant help hut become more productive if you do that. Better output from fewer heads = better productivity. This is not a complex thing.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Actually that's a very valid point made by this editorial cartoon. The primary risk to our society and our democracy is inequality. Gross inequality is politically destabilizing. Look at all the great revolutions and political mass movements and great rebellions and the collapse of the great empires and republics of history. Inequality was the primary source of political destabilization that led to these great revolutions and collapse of empires.
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It's mostly pushed by liberal arts majors, butthurt by their pay checks.
 
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