Posted on 12/27/2016 4:36:17 AM PST by expat_panama
Anger about economic inequality in the United States dominated the presidential election. But while polemics about the issue have flourished across the political spectrum, clarity has not.
Lack of clarity about inequality has been around for a long time...
...think it through.
Eliminating poverty is obviously good. And, happily, it is already happening on a global scale...
...will we really help the poor by focusing on inequality?...
...What matters ethically is that the poor have a roof over their heads and enough to eat, and the opportunity to read and vote and get equal treatment by the police and courts. Enforcing the Voting Rights Act matters. Restraining police violence matters. Equalizing possession of Rolexes does not...
...expropriating the rich to give to the poor does not uplift the poor very much. If we took every dime from the top 20 percent of the income distribution and gave it to the bottom 80 percent, the bottom folk would be only 25 percent better off...
...a free society of betterment, one that lifts up the poor by gigantic amounts?
We had better focus directly on the equality that we actually want and can achieve, which is equality of social dignity and equality before the law. Liberal equality, as against the socialist equality of enforced redistribution, eliminates the worst of poverty. It has done so spectacularly... ...It will enrich all of us.
To borrow from the heroes of my youth, Marx and Engels: Working people of all countries unite! You have nothing to lose but stagnation! Demand exchange-tested betterment in a liberal society.
Some dare call it capitalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Uh, how is this from the NYT?
Don’t worry, they probably have black-listed the author by now.
Blasphemy!!!!
My advice is to invest in growth because wherever there are double standards, equality is not possible.
Heroes are Marx and Lenin.. the headline seemed a capitalist mantra, but he ends, as all marxists do.. with a plea to Demand your rights and workers unite... I must have missed women and children hit hardest. Like all deceivers there is just enough truth in it to make it seem reasonable. Maybe this is the start of the New Democrat strategy.. wrap your socialism in warm, fuzzy blankets of capitalism and equality.. while you enslave and kill those non conformists. Nice strategy, I had to read to the end to get his true war cry.. demand free stuff.
Yeah, I wondered about that too.
Anger about economic inequality in the United States dominated the presidential election.
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So what was Obama doing the past 8 years?
Not a chance. McCloskey is “transgendered.”
Beware of two catch words, both twisted in meaning, used by multinational corporationists. In past, they were seen as good things; but their meaning has been corrupted.
The two words are “growth” and “productivity”.
In past they meant economic improvement that increased the prosperity of the American people. More wealth and smarter work, less laborious and more profitable.
Today, they have been turned on their heads to mean more untaxed corporate profits, with production outside of the US, and far fewer American employees; and more labor at lower wages for American workers, many replaced by cheap imported labor.
So, what I ask for is to be suspicious when the words “growth” and “productivity” are used.
nyt's first sentence is a lie.
nyt is lies and disinformation.
Inequalities of outcome exist because of inequalities of effort.
Thomas Sowell
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Aristotle
“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals”
Felix Frankfurter
“The Poor you will always have with you.” Jesus Christ
FAKE ECONOMICS
Ownership saves the poor, not growth, not equality.
The democrats want everyone to be poor at the same level (except for the party leaders, with their expensive homes and cushy travel).
The Republicans want to give everyone the option to achieve at their own pace and level.
The difference in a nutshell.
“Growth” in modern-day America = outsourcing jobs to China, replacing with automation or cutting positions and having the same # of employees do 2-4x the same work.
Forced equality doesn’t sound so bad after you watch your friends and family continually get screwed over with no recourse. You can’t sue (and wouldn’t have a prayer of winning if you could), your elected officials won’t institute tariffs or exit taxes or any method of economic self-defense, and the more jobs you get sacked from the worse your work history looks to future employers.
We’re digging our own grave, folks.
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