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Ike Bana 08-21-2023 07:44 AM

The subhuman race...
 
It's what we are when...

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Since 2020, the richest 1 percent has captured nearly two-thirds of all new wealth globally — almost twice as much money as the rest of the world’s population. At the beginning of last year, it was estimated that 10 billionaire men possessed six times as much wealth as the poorest three billion people on Earth. In the United States, the richest 10 percent of households own more than 70 percent of the country’s assets.
That's 10 white guys who have more money than more than a third of the world's population. Eight of the 10 wealthiest billionaires are American born, although Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, but grew up in this country. So nine of them are Americans.

Why Does Everyone Feel So Insecure All the Time? - New York Times 8/18/23

RickeyM 08-21-2023 08:02 AM

I'm not against people generating wealth for them and theirs, but when is enough enough?

Ike Bana 08-21-2023 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by RickeyM (Post 422880)
I'm not against people generating wealth for them and theirs, but when is enough enough?

When I got my first mental health job as a direct service provider at a not for profit agency in 1993, I found out quickly what the deal is with the American people. I worked on cases that involved the Illinois Department of Children and Families. Child protective services cases. I don't know what it's like now, but back in those days Illinois DCFS workers in metro Chicago were overloaded with so many cases that there was no way they could keep every at risk kid safe. And they were paid shit for it. It was the first time I thought about how we have Jobs, and Gates, and Oprah, and Ellen, and Stallone and Buffett, etc., who get rewarded the way they do at the same time that kids who are supposed to be protected and are being abused and killed.

And that the culture has decided what it wants to reward and with how much...and the culture gets exactly what it deserves.

Oerets 08-22-2023 06:20 AM

Greed is a all to common a failing in humans, one that makes so many suffer. When Greed and envy meet have caused collapses of many civilizations in the past, will again.

Some lesson it seems need to be relearned.

Ike Bana 08-22-2023 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Oerets (Post 422898)
Greed is a all to common a failing in humans, one that makes so many suffer. When Greed and envy meet have caused collapses of many civilizations in the past, will again.

Some lesson it seems need to be relearned.

Obviously, this country hasn't learned shit when half the country are anti-democracy cult scum.


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