Yes you can. Get rich and do something about it.
lol, so your argument is that all I have to do is win a super rigged game, and then I can get rid of the rigged game? Why would anyone try to do that? If someone wins the rigged game and becomes rich, then the rigged game now protects them. They now benefit from the economy being rigged in their favor.No, the much better plan is for all of us to reshape the economy to take power away from the corrupt billionaires.
We both agree that money correlates with power. We both want money. I’ll work for it. You choose not to.
And why would you as a rich person protect yourself and not pay as much taxes? You’re a hypocrite. You want to be rich and are saying you would willingly do the same thing you accuse rich people of doing. We all would.
But you will never be among the top 1%
Donald Trump, who was born into a wealthy family with a thriving business had a much better chance of becoming a billionaire than someone like me, who grew up in a nice suburb.
Who says? You? ha! tell me who Jeff Bezoz was when he graduated from Princeton in 1986. His dad owned a bicycle shop; his mom was 17 when he was born. Now, not just approaching 1%, he IS THE one percent. The only people who say "you will never" are the people who never will. Argue for your limitations; they yours. Sorry, I don't play there.
But I also realize the system is rigged against me. We will never have it fixed in time for it to particularly help me. But I want my kids to have more opportunities than I have. Sadly, the way things are going they will have significantly less opportunities, just like my generation have less opportunity than my parents.
I didn't say I would do that. I said that someone who won the rigged game would do that. In order to win the game, you likely need to be the kind of cut throat asshole who would screw over other people in order to get ahead. People like that would have no interest in fixing a broken system that now benefits them.
will you ever tire of making excuses for yourself? STOP! You do yourself no favors. Do I care if Bezos is 1 in 1,000,000? Should you? I guess if you're convinced you'll never make it, I guess you won't. No, I'll guarantee it. Like I saId: YOU AND YOUR MIRROR. CHANGE THAT GUY. Best place to start.
You’re welcome to keep believe that. There are countless examples where that’s not true.
You choose to live in a world where you believe everyone is out to get you and as a result don’t try or work hard enough. Wake up.
Give me a break. You wouldn’t want to fix the system either. You said so yourself. Stop being a hypocrite.
This is what you said not me. Do you fit in this category that you created. If you do then you’re a hypocrite. If you don’t then having money and power can enact policies you’re in support of. Which is it?
American dream bullshyte? It is only if you make so. If your dreams are trashed that's on you. We're done, you're a useless bore.
You’re welcome to keep believing that. There are countless examples where that’s not true. Everyone has the same opportunity. You can become President. I can become President. I can create a billionaire company from scratch, you can too. You choose to live in a world where you believe everyone is out to get you and as a result don’t try or work hard enough. Wake up.
Learned helplessness starts at an early age.Lifestyle choices matter.
That being said, Hollywood is littered with failed progenies who end up bankrupt or dead from drugs. Having rich parents is no guarantee for a wealthy future unless you are a trust fund baby, which means you aren't actually productive, just spending the wealth someone else earned legitimately. You won't ever be wealthier than your trust fund if you don't produce anything. But we need the trust fund babies as an incentive for the parents that bust their balls to make millions of dollars, otherwise, the GDP suffers when they choose to sit it out.
You need to make an effort to intentionally take on challenges.
If you elect Joe Biden, your taxes are going up, and Mt. Rushmore is coming down. Don't you dare tell me that only the one-percenters will be taxed; that you'll skate. Don't be an idiot. You already want to have free higher education, and medicare for all. Just to cover the current government expense, taxing just the one-percenters, even at 100% [they get no income] you will fund the government for less than six months. Who pays the rest? You, you, and you, and me. Now add your Green New Deal, which estimates are anywhere from $7T over ten years, to $30T over ten years. That's close to, to exceeding an additional $1T per year. Add medicare for all; that's a trillion more. Per year. Add free education, free abortions, free child care, free energy [yes, you're proposing that], and a living wage payment even if you don't work, free benefits for illegals, and on, and on. So don't give me your crap that the one-percenters can pay for all that, so, you won't have a tax increase. Your Marxism is a failed social contract. It has never lasted anywhere tried for more than 100 years. Meanwhile, the system you're throwing away has endured 230 years. You tell me which has a better chance of survival. But, go ahead. Vote for Joe Biden. You cannot even tell me when you elect him who the President will be, because it ain't Joe Biden. He's a puppet. Who's really your Marxist overlord? You don't know, do you?
That is such a load of crap! What, you abdicate control of your destiny that easily? Get an education. Learn to think critically. Use your head to whorl smart, not just hard. Is that so hard?I have an education. I do think critically. I see that the vast majority of wealth is controlled by a very few number of people. They have, over the course of decades and even centuries, designed an economic system that protects them and their class. They have systematically devalued labor and experience and concentrated as much wealth and power into their own hands.So yes, if you work hard all your life it is possible to succeed. But you will never be among the top 1%. You will never be wealthy or powerful enough to make any real change. But that is how they sell the lie.And the current economic crisis has actually highlighted that point. The people who are critically important are the people who run our hospitals, drive the trucks full of goods, stock our grocery stores etc. But those people are getting completely screwed over. It isn't them the government is spending trillions of dollars to support. It is businesses and millionaires/billionaires. When it comes down to it, the system is designed to protect the rich, not you.
will you ever tire of making excuses for yourself? STOP! You do yourself no favors. Do I care if Bezos is 1 in 1,000,000? Should you? I guess if you're convinced you'll never make it, I guess you won't. No, I'll guarantee it. Like I saId: YOU AND YOUR MIRROR. CHANGE THAT GUY. Best place to start.
Do you think it stems from indoctrination and effective propaganda machinery?
Yet people from all over the world flock to your country, fleeing from totalitarian and leftist governments. They want what you have. You want what they have. Why don't you move? They are willing. China has a big gap in the wealthy and poor too, yet the poor have no freedom of expression, cannot speak out against their government. Millions are persecuted and suppressed.
Although you are not as well-off as the billionaires, their companies give you jobs and raise your living standards far above these totalitarian regimes that oppress their citizens in every way while the rich feed off the backs of the poor in their exploitation. There is no synergism their.
Do you think it stems from indoctrination and effective propaganda machinery?Yes, but I don't just think it, I know its happening. My daughter, who is not 40, would come home from school telling me what she learned that day. Elementary school [K - 6] then middle, and high school, all in 70s and early 80s. The Marxist propagandas was in full display, then. She was telling me this slavery nonsense practiced by Washington, and Jefferson, et al. But, what she was not taught was that to abolish slavery then, prior to ratification of the Constitution, would collapse the South's economy immediately. The founders knew this would be disastrous, both abolitionists and slavers. Fortunately, they agreed to disagree, and many with reluctance, ratified the Constitution, and hoped a resolution would come. Being Canadian, do I assume correctly your ancestry is British? It took the British two full parliamentary efforts, and some 30 years to finally abolish slavery. It required of us a Civil War. It was never going to be easy, but both made the correct effort. Just so, I believe the effort of Marxism to infiltrate and control our government will take the same effort to eradicate.
Yet people from all over the world flock to your country, fleeing from totalitarian and leftist governments. They want what you have. You want what they have. Why don't you move? They are willing. China has a big gap in the wealthy and poor too, yet the poor have no freedom of expression, cannot speak out against their government. Millions are persecuted and suppressed.so your argument is that there are worse places in the world, so we should do absolutely nothing about the problems in our economy?
Although you are not as well-off as the billionaires, their companies give you jobs and raise your living standards far above these totalitarian regimes that oppress their citizens in every way while the rich feed off the backs of the poor in their exploitation. There is no synergism their.ok, so the people siphoning off the vast majority of the wealth let people have enough to stay alive (although in many cases they don't even do that), so we should just be super happy about that and continue to obey and serve them? That is a really shitty outlook on the world.
Taxes need to go up. Especially on the rich
Your problem, IMO, is that you do not appreciate what you have.
Many problems in much of your economy have been created and perpetuated by the Democrat Party.
It has a priceless commodity they the people of those countries seek - freedom!
