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Originally Posted by Throndor
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Bunch of Jon Snows. Throwing around "buzzwords" like "economic inequality" as if economic inequality is even a problem. They think we need "economic equality", but they don't understand that THEY THEMSELVES are the 1%. Anyone who makes over 35,000$/year in the United States is afforded a quality of life better than 99% of the world's population. You want economic equality in a world without borders? Do you even realize what you're saying? Should I start building your mud hut in the Mojave now?
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So less than half of America is the global 1% (and I assume you mean income not wealth).
Look, I can tell by just a small sample of your posts that your extremely unlikely to say anything about socialism I haven't heard from Fox News 10,000 before. In yet, you probably couldn't explain Marx's theory worth shit and have no understanding why it continues to be a popular theory in all kinds of academics. You actually haven't engage in learning about modern socialism, what you have done is engage in learning modern
anti socialism, which has always been sponsored by deep pockets.
But lets forget all about Marx. I certainly don't one to have another discussion about how enividable Leninism is from someone who can't explain the difference between Marx and Lenin's theories to me. Let's talk about why people are suddenly asking for socialism on the least likely country on the globe.
Because in other countries with similar GDP per capita (there actually all less per capita) -- workers get paid x3 times as much (on the bottom levels), work less, get more time off (on all levels), education and healthcare is free and not a god damn one of them is working past 70 to save to retire.
Meanwhile, their GDP goes up at a similar rate to ours every year. They private corporations that are globally competitive. They have millionaires and billionaires and you can become a millionaire or billionaire in these countries -- statistically its now easier than in America (social mobility has been going down since Regan).
So its obvious whats going on. We
can pay workers more without some horrible happening. And that's precisely the fact the more and more normal working people are waking up to.
We can call it socialism. But really. A lot of it is just Keynesian economics dressed up as socialism. Places like Germany and Sweden that are often cited are considered capitalist economies.
The elite on the Right and Left know their in trouble. So they have been playing up a few themes that keep Americans off of leftwing politics.
1) Abortion
2) Blacks and crime
3) Religion and Trans people
4) Free speech on colleges and grievance studies.
The poor disagree on these...so do the rich but their smart enough to understand it doesn't actually matter that much compared to:
1) Workers rights, wages, and benefits
2) Costs of living, healthcare and education
3) Military spending and foreign policy
Those things are not talked about very seriously on MSNBC, Fox, CNN or any of the other 6 different sources of news we are allowed to have. Discluding a few youtube and talk radio guys.
So we can talk about socialism, abortion, blacks and crime and all that...But the truth is -- its not all that important. Whats important is who can address those three things above me.