When It Is All Better

[Guilds]

https://www.fastcompany.com/90550015/we-were-shocked-rand-study-uncovers-massive-income-shift-to-the-top-1

A full-time worker whose taxable income is at the median—with half the population making more and half making less—now pulls in about $50,000 a year. Yet had the fruits of the nation’s economic output been shared over the past 45 years as broadly as they were from the end of World War II until the early 1970s, that worker would instead be making $92,000 to $102,000. (The exact figures vary slightly depending on how inflation is calculated.)

[DisturbedGuy]

@Guilds

Income inequality: RAND study reveals shocking new numbers

A full-time worker whose taxable income is at the median—with half the population making more and half making less—now pulls in about $50,000 a year. Yet had the fruits of the nation’s economic output been shared over the past 45 years as broadly as they were from the end of World War II until the early 1970s, that worker would instead be making $92,000 to $102,000. (The exact figures vary slightly depending on how inflation is calculated.)

I blame the stock market for most of this. The neverending pressure for increasing profits has robbed the middle class.

[ResPrivita]

@zantax

No, earth isn’t a closed system, ton of resources in near space.

Yeah, hummm’, if one see’s “Utopia” as dependent upon outer space… I do, I think…
The rings of Saturn I understand are gases, and I’ve thought about vessels that can utilize these gases for energy; at least short term, endless, paradoxidal word play, but…
Our next step is out there.
But for a closed system position, Earth is, now.
We have yet to really explore the other side of the closest body to us!
I like the idea that educated peoples reproduce less, as the childrens survival rate is better.
Seems Natures working for, with, and along side us as we become more aware; intelligent
As I have stated the dark side of the moon is still mostly mysterious to mankind.
Can you define near space, and the resources there you speak of; please?
Serious questions.

[Guilds]

@DisturbedGuy

I blame the stock market for most of this. The neverending pressure for increasing profits has robbed the middle class.

Certainly one of the main reasons.

CEO’s and upper management make the majority of their compensation based on the stock price.

Greed, is not good.

Mergers and acquisitions are also an issue. The illusion of competition, with all these different company names…when in reality, many are owned by a parent corp. And many are direct “competitors”.

[Guilds]

@EternalVigilance

You clearly need to watch “The Expanse.”

Excellent show. Cant wait 'til the next season.

I am currently re-watching Enterprise… they are currently, in the “expanse”.

[Guilds]

@Supreme_War_Pig

I must say, this second viewing is closing a lot of gaps for me

It gets really good…

Edited to add, I see you are re-watching it…good idea…I did end up watching Season 1 and 2 again.,…as there was a long gap between me catching up.

[Guilds]

@WuWei

Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida

Oh and radical feminism.

None of this matters.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@Guilds

@Supreme_War_Pig

I must say, this second viewing is closing a lot of gaps for me

It gets really good…

Edited to add, I see you are re-watching it…good idea…I did end up watching Season 1 and 2 again.,…as there was a long gap between me catching up.

A spoiler safe comment that I hope you understand:

Rewatching has explained a lot about things the guy that left-but then came back-says. He also happens to be my fave (Amos is next).

But yeah, this is a pretty dense show. A re-watch has been helpful

[EternalVigilance]

@Supreme_War_Pig

Ha! Working my way through it again, as I type this. S1 E9

I must say, this second viewing is closing a lot of gaps for me

@Guilds

Excellent show. Cant wait 'til the next season.

I am currently re-watching Enterprise… they are currently, in the “expanse”.

I’m gonna have extend the benefit of the doubt to you both on all future debates going forward.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@EternalVigilance

@Supreme_War_Pig

Ha! Working my way through it again, as I type this. S1 E9

I must say, this second viewing is closing a lot of gaps for me

@Guilds

Excellent show. Cant wait 'til the next season.

I am currently re-watching Enterprise… they are currently, in the “expanse”.

I’m gonna have extend the benefit of the doubt to you both on all future debates going forward.

~tips hat~

Thank you sir. Consider that benefit returned.

[Guilds]

@EternalVigilance

I’m gonna have extend the benefit of the doubt to you both on all future debates going forward.

Back at ya!

[Ceasar]

@biggestal99

@TheRedComet

. You’re looking for equity

Nope equality.

That’s what I want.

Equity is a prog idea.

Equality a liberal one.

I am a liberal.

Allan

You are a Marxist. Most of the left is.

[zantax]

@WuWei

@zantax

@tnt

@zantax

They moved up, not down, how is that a bad thing?

Then why did the lower income bracket grow as well as the upper?

Immigration.

Show me.

Look at figure one.

foc262e.pdf

[Ceasar]

@TheRedComet

Utopian ideals sound good when an “intellectual” writes it down on their notepad by their desk.

Once it’s said out loud, it will be quickly picked apart. And if put into practice, will result equally shared misery like it always does.

Which is why all revolutionary intellectuals end up as political recluses and exiled, kicked out of their own revolutions and watching their naive worldview destroyed by the power of men who use it for true power.

You left out how revolutionary intellectuals often also end up in prison work camps or executed. Often they are the first to go.

[RTchoke]

@tnt

@WuWei

History begins today.

Rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane.

Plain.

[Ceasar]

@CanadianJudo

@WuWei

What will it look like?

I know it will never be finished, but this masterpiece we are all striving for will have to get better if we just allow the progs some rein.

So what will it look like?

If we close the “wealth gap”, where will median “wealth” be?

If we eliminate racism, does that include the private sector?

If we give amnesty and continue to allow open borders, what will we look like?

If we make CT the teaching tool, what will education look like?

I’m trying to envision this Utopian Dream so I can get on board. Help me.

Its hard to do anything when any form of progression is viewed as Communism.

Progressives are communists, in the closet. Like the Marxists always do, hide who they really are till they consolidate power, after that, the imprisonments & executions begin.

[Ceasar]

@CanadianJudo

@Axxowiz

All the countries they get propped up as “What we should be denounced multiculturalism and do their best to keep the population roughly the same.

They talk about 7-10k influx in immigration but hardily speak that they are deporting double that amount each year. Almost all the leaders in Europe have said it even Angela Merkel twice. Her own words - “Multiculturalism has utterly failed”.

Germans have been deporting 20,000 a year, Sweden all but quit letting them come in, and fortress Europe is back on the menu as most countries have built barriers, fences, or left the EU altogether like the UK did.

Only America along have had to arrest a million illegals at their border in a six month period. European countries have been doing their best to keep it from happening again. Let’s be Sweden and Switzerland :rofl

multiculturalism is the literal defining trait of American culture.

No it’s just another leftist division tactic.

[Ceasar]

@biggestal99

@EternalVigilance

Anybody that believes Cuba is a “utopia” to aspire to needs to be discarded from public life.

Most republicans feel the election was stolen from trump.

Maybe we should keep that faction out of the mainstream too.

If you want to talk about dumb.

There is dimness on both sides…

Allan

They aren’t dumb, you are projedumb.cting, & as most leftist’s, think leftist thinking is smart, & anyone right of that

[WuWei]

@DisturbedGuy

I blame the stock market for most of this. The neverending pressure for increasing profits has robbed the middle class.

Do you have a 401k?

[WuWei]

@CanadianJudo

multiculturalism

What does that mean?