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Rath on 10 July 2010
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TheRealMafoo said:
M.U.G.E.N said:

Dunno if I agree with his numbers BUT I can see where he is coming from..over the past 10 years the gap between the compensation of an employee and the executives of the company has risen by a great margin, even when the recession was going on. Has it stopped now? nope it still as bad or worse...don't really care much for communism, socialism or even democracy, the spread of wealth can and should be better than this in the USA


The issue is are the rich getting rich at the expense of the poor? No. If you look at the times in the US where the growth of the rich getting richer was the fastest, the quality of life for the poor at that time was growing the fastest as well.

They poor's quality of life was improving because the rich were getting richer, not in spite of it. Yes, the rich were improving at a faster rate, but who cares? If they help everyone why they get rich, what's the problem?

This is the issue I take with the current US mindset (as apposed to 100 years ago). People today look at someone else and say "that's not fair" instead of just looking at yourself and saying "what can I do to make my life better".

When I was a kid, you heard of other people in the world being envious of the US because it was a place you could go and make your fortune. Today if you make a fortune, you're somehow evil, or something to be ashamed of. You become a target because you just don't diserve what you have.

It's a horrible mindset we as a country have become.

The nature of a capitalist economy is cyclical, the fact that the poor and the rich get richer at the same time doesn't prove that the poor are getting richer because the rich are. My interpretation would be the poor and the rich are both getting richer during an economic 'bubble'.  You seem to be misinterpreting the difference between correlation and causation.

Also you are building a strawman argument in my opinion, you are making out that because people believe it is fair to tax the rich more they somehow hate the rich. Progressives generally don't hate the rich or think they should be ashamed, they just think they have more and as such can afford to give more.