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If rich people rigged the system

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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,894
    2001400ex said:

    You are seriously asking that after the explanation that was provided? Sometimes you just gotta step away from the keyboard.
    Great strategy - dismiss the question you don't like as 'stupid'.

    If the system is so rigged, how does this happen?

  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    edited November 2018

    Great strategy - dismiss the question you don't like as 'stupid'.

    If the system is so rigged, how does this happen?

    Throbber you are smarter than that. Read the post.... The example about football refs. It's not rigged against 100% of the people. Just like some wealthy people go bankrupt.

    I do find it odd that the crowd that says we need to end food stamps to get people back to work. Is arguing against the fact the system is rigged to keep poor people poor.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,894
    edited November 2018
    2001400ex said:

    Throbber you are smarter than that. Read the post.... The example about football refs. It's not rigged against 100% of the people. Just like some wealthy people go bankrupt.

    I do find it odd that the crowd that says we need to end food stamps to get people back to work. Is arguing against the fact the system is rigged to keep poor people poor.
    Still didn't answer the question. how did those people listed beat 'the system'? P-Diddy, Daymon John, Richard Parsons?

    did they get the willie wonka magic 'avoid the rigged system' ticket? If they did, that should be advertised so all the po' people at least have some hope beyond food stamps from the man.

    Or maybe they just worked like motherfuckers and took advantage of the opportunities presented to them or created their own? The system is rigged is bullshit. Some people get a head start because of looks or last name or whatever - but there's literally nothing holding anybody back in this country from achieving greatness.

    So, yeah, I am smarter than that.

  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    2001400ex said:

    Under threat of violence? El oh fucking El.
    What happens to people who don't pay there taxes Hondo?
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    2001400ex said:

    Throbber you are smarter than that. Read the post.... The example about football refs. It's not rigged against 100% of the people. Just like some wealthy people go bankrupt.

    I do find it odd that the crowd that says we need to end food stamps to get people back to work. Is arguing against the fact the system is rigged to keep poor people poor.
    You find it odd that people people are capable of arguing two separate points that have nothing to do with each other? Given your pea sized brain I find that easy to believe.

    Saying the system is rigged to keep poor people poor, which you did, is bullshit. Saying eliminating welfare would push many people back into the work force doesn't have anything to do with your statement.

  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    2001400ex said:

    It's clear you've never owned a business or been involved in business decisions. But the vast majority of businesses keep wages and benefits down as best they can. Hence why they spend so much money fighting unions. The lower the wages are, the more money the owners can put in their pocket.
    But your claim is that the system is rigged to keep poor people poorer Hondo. These people in your little story appear to have jobs. So the "system" has given them a job.

    Businesses pay the wages and benefits they need to in order to attract the workforce necessary to conduct their business. Plenty of money going into the pockets of Google and Facebook but I wouldn't say that their employees are being made poor.

  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Still didn't answer the question. how did those people listed beat 'the system'? P-Diddy, Daymon John, Richard Parsons?

    did they get the willie wonka magic 'avoid the rigged system' ticket? If they did, that should be advertised so all the po' people at least have some hope beyond food stamps from the man.

    Or maybe they just worked like motherfuckers and took advantage of the opportunities presented to them or created their own? The system is rigged is bullshit. Some people get a head start because of looks or last name or whatever - but there's literally nothing holding anybody back in this country from achieving greatness.

    So, yeah, I am smarter than that.

    I didn't say there was no way out. Literally my next statement is our country probably has the best system to help people get out as well, with Pell Grants and shit.

    BTW. It didn't go unnoticed that you only mentioned wealthy black people.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    Hondo thinks because he contradicts himself in his head up the ass claim about the "system" making poor people poorer, that means he never put his head up his ass in the first place.
  • SledogSledog Member Posts: 37,226 Standard Supporter
    Of course the rich get richer. Ever heard the term "it takes money to make money"? Evidently some think this is magic fairy dust. They have money and they use it to make more. HTH
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    edited November 2018
    I'm not arguing that rich people don't get richer, my point of contention is that the "system" makes poor people poorer and that rich people get richer by taking wealth from poor people. That's obviously a position that these petty little Marxists believe but not one that they are able to defend.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,894
    2001400ex said:

    I didn't say there was no way out. Literally my next statement is our country probably has the best system to help people get out as well, with Pell Grants and shit.

    BTW. It didn't go unnoticed that you only mentioned wealthy black people.
    Your google works as good as mine.


  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    Seems to be working out for them, doesn't it?


  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    edited November 2018
    So the size of the "pie" in 1962 is the same size it is today?

    The gap in my wealth and Mark Zuckerberg's wealth has exploded in the last 15 years, how has that hurt me? How am I worse off because Zuckerberg has gotten ridiculously wealthy? Who did he steal that money from?
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    SFGbob said:

    So the size of the "pie" in 1962 is the same size it is today?

    Are you kidding?
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    Are you dodging?
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 20,027 Standard Supporter
    2001400ex said:

    Funny how you throw that out but don't actually refute the argument. Great discussion as always!!
    I get it. Guys like you hate Free Speech.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 20,027 Standard Supporter
    edited November 2018
    2001400ex said:

    I didn't say there was no way out. Literally my next statement is our country probably has the best system to help people get out as well, with Pell Grants and shit.

    BTW. It didn't go unnoticed that you only mentioned wealthy black people.
    And there it is, folks! The dime store accusation of racism. In fact, Hondo scraped it off the floor of the dime store, because he's that desperate.

    Seems to be working out for them, doesn't it?


    The next congress could easily increase taxes on the richest people in the Country like Clinton did, and get away with it. But this time, leading the charge against those increases would be the lefties at Microsoft, Google and Facebook, instead of the righties at Shell, Chevron and Texaco.

    Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    SFGbob said:

    Are you dodging?

    You really want me to answer whether the total wealth in the US is the same today as it is in 1962? No, Bob, it is not the same.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    Then why would you post a graph with the heading: Ultra-wealthy take more of the pie that makes no mention that the size of the pie is much greater today than it was in 1962?

    How am I harmed by Zuckerberg's wealth? If the top 1% are taking a large share of the "pie" but the pie is far larger how am I hurt by that? Also, how much of the income taxes are paid by this 1%?

    Rich people aren't getting richer by stealing money from poor people.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    SFGbob said:

    Then why would you post a graph with the heading: Ultra-wealthy take more of the pie that makes no mention that the size of the pie is much greater today than it was in 1962?

    How am I harmed by Zuckerberg's wealth? If the top 1% are taking a large share of the "pie" but the pie is far larger how am I hurt by that? Also, how much of the income taxes are paid by this 1%?

    Rich people aren't getting richer by stealing money from poor people.

    Your lack of understanding of the effects of economic inequality isn't my problem. There are countless papers published on the subject, feel free to educate yourself.
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