Exactly who qualifys to be in the 1%. Originally Posted by Jackie SThe one percent or to put it more accurately, the 000.5 percent who own most of the wealth in America, are invisible to most people. They are under the radar to most. The amount of wealth these elite own is unsurpassable so much so that we, the ordinary Americans, could never possibly comprehend it.
The first thing you need to learn to do is NOT to quote socialists who have never run anything. Also, quit talking about the 1% as if it really exists. The people in the top 1% (or 10%) for that matter tend to change from on generation to the other. Was Bill Gates or Steve Jobs in the 1% twenty years ago? They got there with ideas and if you go out to destroy these "evil" rich people then you make it so no one else can achieve what they achieved in the future. If you think that is a good idea then how about all the millionaires they created from researchers, designers, programmers, marketers, retail owners, to post rollout app designers. Thats the first tier, the second tier is all the carpenters that built their houses, the landscapers who put in their yards, the car maker on the assembly line who has a job because some guy wanted a brand new sports car and there is the provider who services this silicon valley people late at night.YUou definitely have a very limited view of the world and humanity. YOu still try to prove you are right, and what for? Is being right more important to you than the truth? Think about it and think abouit your priorities. Is what you believe so important to you that you would give up what is really important?
The first thing is to understand how money, business, and the economy works. Reading Picketty is not going to teach you that. It would only teach you how to steal from someone else and give it to someone who didn't earn in order to deal with the guilt that you have.
Maybe you should read the original, Das Kapital (German for Capital). And the name of the book is "Capital in the 21st Century".
You should qualify your use of the term "best seller". A hundred thousand copies in two years is a best seller by the standards of the Harvard Press but pales beside 17 million copies of The Hunger Games. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
YUou definitely have a very limited view of the world and humanity. YOu still try to prove you are right, and what for? Is being right more important to you than the truth? Think about it and think abouit your priorities. Is what you believe so important to you that you would give up what is really important?. . . . Originally Posted by SeekingTruthMirror, Mirror, on the Wall... who's Seer in this Hall?
The one percent or to put it more accurately, the 000.5 percent who own most of the wealth in America, are invisible to most people. They are under the radar to most. The amount of wealth these elite own is unsurpassable so much so that we, the ordinary Americans, could never possibly comprehend it.I don't know if you are dangerously naive or a political hack (and plant). Have you watched TV in the past 30 years? Been to a movie? For over 20 years the military were either the butt of jokes (think MASH), the villains (think Blue Thunder), or the victims of the powerful (think Hamburger Hill). Military people were rarely 3D characters, they were pawns to be pushed around for some other reason. Exceptions include Saving Private Ryan (World War II, the good war), American Sniper, or We Were Soldiers. 9/11 changed a lot of people's perceptions and others, who lack compassion, just don't get it yet. The first Gulf War shook up a lot of people when so many soldiers, sailors, and airmen came home from a huge victory. They weren't pyschopaths, drug addicts, or rapists. You betray your bigotry and ignorance when you call it "programming". I have to ask why you DON'T respect the military. What is your problem? When the chips are down, who are you going to call? Homeland Security or the US Marines?
The problem with politics is that money is used as a tool to buy power. Power against the majority, power to conquer and control. There is a small percentage of the population that were born psychopathic, with no empathy, which I believe is partly genetic and partly environmental. Most intelligent Americans realize that we have people like this running the country, in a very subtle way. They have no compassion for society as a whole, only their own self interest. Definition of "psychopathy" from Psychology Today:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...s-psychopath-0
Men that were raised from day one to worship the military (at all costs) have been raised to think that way. There are a few younger people who have not yet been programmed by mainstream media. They are able to form an "unprogrammed" opinion. In other words, young people have more open minded thinking and have not yet been prejudiced by "old thinking". Originally Posted by SeekingTruth
Bill Gates was there 20 years ago. And you would like to have people think that liberalism is killing the one percent but people still manage to reach that level. Originally Posted by WombRaiderYou are an idiot. Think about that statement for one second and you will see the problem.
I love it when you talk out of your ass. keep it up. Originally Posted by WombRaiderSpeaking of which....