@blackhairedhero said:
@theone86: Wow your a perfect puppet. Bernie who blabbers about wealth inequality is a multimillionaire. I got an idea. How about those who hate income equality but are extremely rich donate their earnings so they can be equal to everyone who votes for them?
First off, if you'd pay any attention at all to what I say around here you'd know I'm not a Bernie fanboy. Second, if they hate income inequality then what is donating their earnings going to do? People will still be getting compensated for their labor at vastly unequal rates. Maybe you should stop conflating wealth inequality and income inequality. Third, the idea is not to make everyone equal, the idea is to make a society where everyone has a decent chance at a fairly equal life. By every measurable standard, that is not the case in the U.S. And finally, what the **** does any of this have to do with deficits? My point had absolutely nothing to do with wealth or income inequality, I was simply saying that maybe people who think government deficits are a problem shouldn't take government salaries, that doesn't seem too radical to me.
@comp_atkins said:
a 77 year old guy worth $2M is "extremely rich"?
To be fair, that's more than eight times the median amount of wealth for someone his age. But to put this in perspective, someone in the one percent owns five times as much wealth, meaning they have 40 times the median amount. If someone owns more wealth than almost everyone else could hope to achieve I'd term them extremely rich. The only thing that makes him not extremely rich is that the people richer than him own such a ridiculously larger portion of wealth. But, again, the goal is not to make everyone equal, it's to create an equitable society, and singling out someone with such a relatively small amount of assets does not seem constructive.
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