Posted on 02/14/2022 8:55:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Does this mean they should open a soup kitchen on the ships?
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Those rich cruise passengers are just feeding the sharks that their ancestors once fed.
“The percentage of wealth owned by the top 1% keeps rising over time. Who’s to credit or blame?”
As a general rule it takes money to make money and if you don’t have money it will cost you.
Also if you divided up all the money in the world into equal piles and gave each person their pile, in 10 or 20 years those who were rich will be rich again and those who were poor will be poor again.
What is the quality of life for the lowest 2.5%?
What and when is "America capitalist era" and what would I see?
There just aren’t that many people that have the ambition and drive to do what it takes to get rich, they just sit back and expect wealth to fall from the sky.
That's exactly what happens if they ever do get Reparations for Slavery, just as in that Chappelle skit.
like the asskicking they so richly deserve...
One of the earliest Buddhist kings of Tibet did exactly that. By edict he required that all property be divided equally among the people. It took ONE year for it all to return to the way it was.
So he ordered it done again. Again it took ONE year to return to the way it was before.
He had compassion but lacked wisdom. He did gain some from the experiment and seeing his error never tried it again.
See the Bolsheviks understood this, so they took the money then just shot the people who had the money.
LOL
I shouldn’t laugh, it’s true.
It’s amazing how many ways people can justify theft and murder and doing it on a grand scale seems to one of the most common ways to rationalize it.
I would think the post WWII era 1946 until 1966 would be a good snapshot to judge the economic power of the middle class vs the size of the 1%ers.
Let me know what you find.
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