A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality

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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.

And just look at the consequences when we as a society fail to hold people to these enter level expectations. I'm not talking about passing a law or employing some sort of morals police. I'm just talking about sending a message to everyone who lives here that this is an expectation that we believe everyone should achieve or attempt to achieve.

I say we should place a social stigma on not doing these things that's as least as strong as we have on smoking and or using the word "fag" in public. There should be some level of public shame if you don't clear this low bar that's at least equal to what you'd get if you lit up a cigarette in a restaurant.

Most of what ails the country would be solved by these steps. But the cycle of inter generational bad decision making seems impossible to break.

And now we've entwined race in these issues to the point that we as a society can no longer say what everyone knows is true or at least we used to know they were true. People didn't used to stigmatize out of wedlock births 60 years ago because they were a bunch of prudes who didn't approve of sex outside of marriage. Out of wedlock births were stigmatized because of the burden it placed on the family and society. Religion and morality were just the vehicles used to impose the stigma but they weren't the reason for it.

Agree, but I think it was both. There was always a morality component about fucking before being married. My wife's family was all over that shit. Of course everyone is full of shit and does shit behind closed doors, but hypocrisy is another thread.

But why did that morality component exist and how did it come into existence? It wasn't always there. Why did Society find the need to create it?

That's a chicken and egg question I guess. Deconstructed, I suppose all religious or moral cannon serves some practical societal purpose.

All the food rules (no shellfish, no pork) I assume came from a place where people were getting sick from eating those things.

But what’s the practical purpose to tithing 20% of your income to a pedophile in a funny robe?

Administrative overhead? Somebody gotta pay for it.