Lololol. Over here, one of the recruits panicked and refused to let go of the grenade. He just stood there and stared blankly at the sergeant. The sergeant ran over, tried to pull the grenade from his hand and got killed. This happened just before I enlisted. There is no minimum IQ requirement here.
Isnāt it always someone elseās fault when you adopt the mentality of over-reliance on the government or otherwise? Some of us Chinapersons who were not raised in communist China refer to people with this kind of mentality as ānot been weaned off their motherās milkā.
Why do you support co ops over non co ops when they were just as much to blame for predatory lending practices that led to the collapse of the housing market?
Iāve practically written you dissertations as a rebuttal and you just ignore it. Why would I continue to waste my time on you?
Of course, there is. The US buys 35% of Venezuelaās exports. Thatās more than double their next largest buyer. If we wanted to destroy them financially, itād be really easy. But, dumbshits like you, think the paper sanctions we have on Venezuela are why they suck at life and not the obvious answer. Really shitty economic principles because that would force you to re-evaluate your dogma.
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*Not to mention worker co-ops DO NOT work better than the ātop down model we are currently laboring underā. Your entire premise is either false or has not been sufficiently proven.
You used Canada as an example of what is doing the right thing.
A) I support the legalization of MJ for recreational use (for the 100th time) and
B) They also do a whole lot of stuff thatās WRONG. Like really fucked up wrong.
So, if youāre going to point to Canada as a moral/ethical guide you better be prepared to explain all the unethical immoral stuff their government goes too.
THE POINT, is that the FDA just approved a drug derived from MJ despite Pharma wasting billions of dollars trying to keep MJ from the medical community and FAILING. Good grief.
So the middle class in America IS NOT disappearing?
While it may globally be true, where have the majority of gains gone?
In the U.S.
Divided equally among 124 million U.S. households, this would be $760,000 per family. However, the bottom 50% of families, representing 62 million households, average $11,000 net worth.
More recently, in 2017, an Oxfam study found that eight rich people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race.
Wow, that kind of wealth inequality makes a lot of sense.
The accumulation of wealth grants more options and eliminates restrictions about how one can live life. Dennis Gilbert asserts that the standard of living of the working and middle classes is dependent upon income and wages, while the rich tend to rely on wealth, distinguishing them from the vast majority of Americans.[16] A September 2014 study by Harvard Business School declared that the growing disparity between the very wealthy and the lower and middle classes is no longer sustainable.
In 2007, the top 20% wealthiest possessed 80% of all financial assets.[19] In 2007 the richest 1% of the American population owned 35% of the countryās total wealth, and the next 19% owned 51%. Thus, the top 20% of Americans owned 86% of the countryās wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 14%.
However, after the Great Recession which started in 2007, the share of total wealth owned by the top 1% of the population grew from 35% to 37%, and that owned by the top 20% of Americans grew from 86% to 88%. The Great Recession also caused a drop of 36% in median household wealth, but a drop of only 11% for the top 1%, further widening the gap between the top 1% and the bottom 99%.
According to a 2014 Credit Suisse study, the ratio of wealth to household income is the highest it has been since the Great Depression.
Another myth. Capitalism tends to bend towards cartel-like behavior. Buying politicians and government regulators to suit their own financial ends no matter the consequences. An awful system. Look at the pharma industry. They try to keep choices of treatments limited if they cannot profit from it. So the end result is that the public suffers. Great system.