When you have an economic system based on forcing money from the top 2-49% to the bottom 50% you’ll have a 1% richer than the dreams of kings. It’s because typically the best group at holding and expanding the economy is the middle to upper middle class. When you have dollars sent down lower against market principles, it flies right to the top and stays there.
You see it every time the welfare and entitlement state expands. The inequality explodes.
Sorry - I can't get past the author's weird belief that Chris Rock's ramblings contain profound nuggets of wisdom that can help us all live better lives.
Some way or another they are built into the ticket price. A price I sure don’t want to pay, lol.
This makes it sound like people don’t know that wealthy people live different lives. Well...duh. I don’t live like a wealthy person by any means....but I live better than people that make less money than I do.
It is what is called...”The Way It Is”.
Chris Rock is one of the dumbest black people to ever live
If you could wave a magic wand and eliminate the emotion of envy tomorrow, the democrats would never win another election. They are the party of fruits, nuts, and people envious of what other people have.
More Socialist/Communist agitprop.
No doubt the article is liberally sprinkled with lies and dramatically false statistics to make a seemingly persuasive case against America and Capitalism. Just following in Marx’s footsteps.
Chris Rock still has the juvenile delusion that everything must be fair..
Whatever “fair” means.. which varys by people that want FREE stuff..
-OR- do not want to work for it.. -OR- want something you have.. and they don’t...
-OR-are hustling RACE.. like Rock..
I believe it.
I have a Pinterest board named “Flying First Class”. Life is pretty cool with a lot of freebies if you are flying top of the line. But I think it depends on what you call free.
To get on a Virgin Airlines flight, you have to have a ticket. Everything is included in the ticket, the food, the drinks, the massage, all the perks. Was it free?
The most awesome are thing that come with a first class Emerites ticket. Lots!!!
Let me know if you want a lint to the Pinterest page.
If you believe the goodies you get in first-class air travel are free, you probably believe the room, board, shows, clubs and hookers high-end gamblers get in Vegas are free. (Oops, escorts, because you can’t get hookers in Vegas. Prostitution is illegal in Clark County. What? It is. Stop laughing.)
I fly quite a bit, but I see airline flights as a way catch up on sleep, not as some alternative to a hotel bar or luxury spa.
Big-government advocates just do not understand the concept of working capital. When government takes all the profit, it is more difficult, even impossible, to grow a business, start a business, or advance economically as a family or individual.
Or to put it in terms Chris would appreciate:
There is no sex in the champagne room, and the free stuff in the first-class lounge isn’t really free.
Elias Isquith,
This statement,
‘“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,” Clark said, according to a report from Sacramento’s KOVR-TV. In fact, while Clark joins many other experts in finding that social mobility today doesn’t make good on the American Dream’s promises, he goes one step further and argues that it never did.’
Is what is called a factoid. A false premise or statement posed as the truth. You idiot. If this were true, the net worth of the United States today as the net worth upon the founding of this country. It is so absurdly false that it requires its own category.
People who rant about inequality really miss the point. There will always be rich folks like Rockefeller, Gates and Zuckerberg. Very few people have a problem with that. Except when they are unable to advance economically themselves. Then people think the game is rigged.
People aren’t coveting Virgin Airline first class flights. They want to not worry about the mortgage and the car payment. They want to be able to take vacations every year and a few great vacations in a lifetime. When even those simple things are denied then people start wondering why.
I think there’s something intrinsically wrong with a society where entertainers are in the top 1 percent. Historically, they occupied a rung just above prostitutes and opium addicts.
Considering Chris Rock is in a position many whites would sell their souls to be in, yet he’s still whining about racism and ignoring all the progress that’s been made, little he says should be taken very seriously.