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[–] Zaqwert [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Another popular analogy is a "bucket of crabs" You put a bunch of crabs in a bucket and none are ever able to crawl out because the ones at the bottom always pull down the ones at the top. The net result is that they all die.

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[–] BigMatteson 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Welcome to socialism.

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[–] SrBearLordofOldCastl 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is what Marx did while he was alive.

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[–] Womb_Raider 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Bipartisanship destroys this country.

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[–] Mylon 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Google is with more today than GM or Ford were worth 40 years ago, yet they employ less people than those companies did at the time. More total wealth is being created than ever before, but the workers creating that wealth aren't seeing these increases. Asking for fair compensation isn't demanding things from the winners, but acknowledging that everyone is working far harder than we need to.

This kind of wealth inequality is dangerous because it allows those with all of the money to subvert democracy and subvert capitalism.

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[–] The_boz_man_cometh 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago  (edited ago)

The rich convince half the poor that the other half is the reason why they're poor. Hell, some people want to get rid of the inheritance tax^1 because somehow they believe their kids will benefit. Not many are rich enough to have to pay this tax, but the rich convince the poor to vote for it with the lie that it's somehow unfair to everyone.

1: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/estate-tax

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[–] Mylon 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

I know. Voat is a fucking joke. It's poor people whining about poor people. But they don't even think they're poor.

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[–] Naught405 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Getting yourself out of a tough spot really shifts your perspective. I think that's why a lot of college kids are lefty but it doesn't carry through even 10 years later.

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[–] 12102916? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I was for a little but I had a job and I didn't take any hand outs, waiting a couple pay checks from that shit part time job and found a room to rent so I could get my humanity back.

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[–] BigMatteson 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

The solution for YOUR problems is within YOU and NOWHERE else.

You must be old enough to remember when personal responsibility was a thing.

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[–] Hmmm 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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[–] EarlPoncho 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

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[–] Hmmm ago 

Yeah, if someone doesn't want to read the whole Atlash Shrugged they should at the very least read the Money Speech by Francisco. One can never re-read it enough times.

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[–] boekanier 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

It's like a cancer.

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