The Top 1%

[festive1]

This belongs here: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-invest...ew-2013-11

[Minimalist]

The rich will always be rich and the poor will always be poor. It is the arrogance of these rich cocksuckers which is now asserting itself that is the problem. Chop off one or two heads and the rest of the fucks would get real humble in a hurry.....at least in public.

[Ryantology]

What is this shit.....socialist propaganda, those people earned their money by working hard. Maybe if you were not so lazy and entitled. Entitled generation…we worked hard for our stuff….work through school, we made the internet….entitle entitled. Besides with the 1% who would create the jobs? You do not see middle class creating jobs? Go read Atlas Shrugged and then comeback and talk to me.

So you are saying that Paris Hilton works harder than these people?

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/ne...mer-safety

In what alternate universe?

I think he was being facetious.

[I and I]

Check those stats out.... http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/20...wn-just-1/

[EgoRaptor]

The problem is capitalism. Marx predicted exactly that this would happen. The solution is simple; laissez-faire free-market communism. A system where everyone is given the opportunity & access to everything they need to achieve. All private property is abolished & all have access to the necessary resources. All goods would be directly purchased by & from the worker, who would then manufacture more goods out of these resources & sell them directly. Thus, the middle-man, the owner of industry; the capitalist is eliminated. Instead all become workers. Incentive is also increased, as one would sell their products directly, so wage labor is done away with & people are payed based off of what they produce & sell. Government intervention would be eliminated & the economy completely deregulated. The industrious & creative would be aptly rewarded through the sales they make, while the lazy & unimaginative would be kept thoroughly poor. Inventors & other entrepreneurs would make millions, but everyone would, because of the communization of property, have the opportunity to make millions if they are industrious & creative enough.

[Cinjin]

The problem is capitalism. Marx predicted exactly that this would happen. The solution is simple; laissez-faire free-market communism. A system where everyone is given the opportunity & access to everything they need to achieve. All private property is abolished & all have access to the necessary resources. All goods would be directly purchased by & from the worker, who would then manufacture more goods out of these resources & sell them directly. Thus, the middle-man, the owner of industry; the capitalist is eliminated. Instead all become workers. Incentive is also increased, as one would sell their products directly, so wage labor is done away with & people are payed based off of what they produce & sell. Government intervention would be eliminated & the economy completely deregulated. The industrious & creative would be aptly rewarded through the sales they make, while the lazy & unimaginative would be kept thoroughly poor. Inventors & other entrepreneurs would make millions, but everyone would, because of the communization of property, have the opportunity to make millions if they are industrious & creative enough.

If only it wasn't for the fact that communistic countries are always full of poor miserable starving people who hate their own way of life.
That's right ... if communism was such a utopian system, you wouldn't have to force people at gunpoint to accept it.

[downbeatplumb]

If only it wasn't for the fact that communistic countries are always full of poor miserable starving people who hate their own way of life.
That's right ... if communism was such a utopian system, you wouldn't have to force people at gunpoint to accept it.

Except Soviet Communism wasn't really what Marx envisioned and ended up with another sort of elite business owners.

A good working system of communism hasn't been tried because people have always corrupted the idea.

I think both Capitalism and Communism's days are numbered as technology makes the idea of a fully working work force redundant.

I can imagine a time when everything you eat and everything you use could have come to you with no human intervention at any level. When this happens and I think that the technology is moving in that direction then how can we expect everyone to work when there will only be a few select jobs.

[Minimalist]

Anybody who insists that his/her "ism" is the only way to live deserves a kick in the balls and complete scorn.

[CleanShavenJesus]

I was aware of this prior to viewing the video. And, as before, I still don't know what to do with the information. What are we supposed to do about it?

If only it wasn't for the fact that communistic countries are always full of poor miserable starving people who hate their own way of life.
That's right ... if communism was such a utopian system, you wouldn't have to force people at gunpoint to accept it.

Except Soviet Communism wasn't really what Marx envisioned and ended up with another sort of elite business owners.

A good working system of communism hasn't been tried because people have always corrupted the idea.

And for that reason, a "good working system of communism" will never be attempted.

[downbeatplumb]

I was aware of this prior to viewing the video. And, as before, I still don't know what to do with the information. What are we supposed to do about it?

Except Soviet Communism wasn't really what Marx envisioned and ended up with another sort of elite business owners.

A good working system of communism hasn't been tried because people have always corrupted the idea.

And for that reason, a "good working system of communism" will never be attempted.

Sadly I think you're right.