A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality

Gwad said:

RaceBannon said:

Ok boomer


I'd ask what your solution is but you don't have one

Your the one trying to sell capitalism why this shit is going on.

You prefer to be ignorant? Good to know

Huh?

Does anybody alive today, with a functioning brain, really need to "sell" capitalism? Whatever that means.

I just want somebody on this board to go to Cuba and not eat the food you want to eat for 2 years and come back and tell me how much fun you had.

Rationing is a bitch. I have family who can vouch for that truth.

I’m worried about the Joe’s rising up and stealing/burning down our shit. That’s why I favor breaking them off a few crumbs to keep them from losing hope. Self serving philanthropy. Win-win.

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

And @CirrhosisDawg calls them trash

The flaw in CD's and @creepycoug meritocracy argument will always be that you have to give Joe a decent chance to succeed. I don't believe in going all protectionist or having no low skill immigration, but things need to be balanced from time to time. If you only favor Joes, then us non Joes get fucked. If you favor mostly non Joes, like we've done the past 40 years, then the Joes give up and start doing stupid shit.

There's never a flaw in the creep. Don't forget that.

If you manage the welfare state with an iron fist (my idea: you can't draw on any public assistance until you've been here and employed for 10 years (make it 20 if you like that better), it won't be an issue. Labor and capital will migrate to where they should. Every day I hear or read about labor shortages. The truth is that MANY American citizens don't want to do many low-skill jobs. We have this problem YUGELY in my industry. It's also a problem in timber and forest products. The number of independent logging contractors is nowhere what it was when @dflea and @RaceBannon and @creepycoug were growing up TUFF down in timber country. Nobody wants to do it anymore. Has nothing to do with Clinton shutting down the national forests. Private industry struggles to get these services in all of the U.S. wood baskets. Seedling planting is even worse. I hear all the time from friends in the building trades that framers and other hard labor jobs are hard to fill.

So, no, we don't need all of Mexico and Central America to show up all at once or ever, but this idea that letting in more low-skill labor is fucking things up here just doesn't play out empirically where I hang out.

I'm all for balance, but I'm not all for human beings trying to legislate it because they always fuck it up. The market is the best means by which to achieve said balance because it factors in actual human behavior at the margin. ACTUAL human behavior; not theorized human behavior.

Stick with Creep. It hasn't steered you wrong yet young buck.

PS: chinned you anyway because you're a level-headed UW rowboat man.

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

People can still make it in this country. Not being obsessed over what someone else has is a good start. No substitute for brains and hard work

Bill Gates being worth billions didn't come at my expense. What he developed has made my life easier

We actually did the flooring at his early office. At night. And he was roaming the halls

Most people don't want to work 24/7. I didn't. The rich people I worked for did

There is no socialist or communist system ever that made as many people rich or comfortable middle as America

Simply an indisputable fact

So stop worrying and get your ass to work kids. Stop buying into bullshit like climate change. Embrace progress and cheap energy

Don't give up

1- Don't get pregnant or get someone pregnant in HS
2- Graduate HS
3- Get job
4- Get married

Follow these 4 easy steps and your odds of living in poverty are less than 3%.

#itshard
#itsaprocess

I didn't know you were a racist

Minorities skin color doesn't allow them to do these things and it's racist to expect them to be able to do so. Need more welfare.

SFGbob said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

People can still make it in this country. Not being obsessed over what someone else has is a good start. No substitute for brains and hard work

Bill Gates being worth billions didn't come at my expense. What he developed has made my life easier

We actually did the flooring at his early office. At night. And he was roaming the halls

Most people don't want to work 24/7. I didn't. The rich people I worked for did

There is no socialist or communist system ever that made as many people rich or comfortable middle as America

Simply an indisputable fact

So stop worrying and get your ass to work kids. Stop buying into bullshit like climate change. Embrace progress and cheap energy

Don't give up

1- Don't get pregnant or get someone pregnant in HS
2- Graduate HS
3- Get job
4- Get married

Follow these 4 easy steps and your odds of living in poverty are less than 3%.

#itshard
#itsaprocess

Brother I've been singing this tune for 20 years.

In all fairness, yes, you have.