Real vs Income Inequality...

[tvashtarkatena]

Baker Test.

[billcoe]

Baker Test.

 

Uhhh, OK....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Fairweather]

Baker Test.

 

juvenile

 

[Fairweather]

Denali.

 

infantile

[tvashtarkatena]

obsessed

 

 

 

 

 

Mousetrap!

[Clavote]

I'm just curious as to what qualities, values, or circumstances you think enabled you to go from ditch-digger to your present station. Do you think that your trajectory constitutes an exception to the rules in a way that renders it meaningless for anyone else to base any broad conclusions on, or that others might be capable of doing something similar?

 

exception to what rules?

 

it seems quite obvious that his exposure early on to a "successful" environment would help give him both the freedom to follow his dreams and the abilities to pursue his professional career later in life.

 

definite advantages over someone growing up being taught that life sucks, everyone is against you, no use trying etc etc negative crap.

 

i think everyone has the same potentials; i also think that realizing those potentials is more of a challenge for some.

 

i think you'd agree with the above, but i can't say i understand your anger towards those who aren't "succeeding" in this life game. i'd guess it has something to do with an overbearing father? mother? being picked on early in life? some latent self-hatred issues? (interesting possibility, since you blame others (projection?) for having this issue)....

 

 

So basically, being poor now is better than being poor then.

 

That should provide the poor and working poor some measure of comfort. So all you poor people, shut the fuck up and get back to work. If you were rich and smart, you would know how good you have it.

 

 

 

 

[sexual_chocolate]

is there a way that complete economic equality can be achieved?

 

i'm not an advocate of an unfettered rapacious capitalism godhead, but to me it seems a heck of a lot better that "the poor" of today are better off than "the poor" of yesterday; couple that with the fact that there is, however difficult and unequally enjoyed, more economic mobility now than with many times in the past, and the ad hominem attacks aimed at the conditions we live in seem a bit....flaccid.