Is it true that Americans are to this day afraid of socialism?

[DonFerrari]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

DonFerrari said:

So you score very high on you don't need to work hard to succeed and if you want to be lazy you don't deserve to starve?

Nice of you to leave out the important part, which I bolded for you.

Back in their heyday, if you were a hard worker you would eventually rise up the ranks and get well payed for it. But that's not true anymore. Today, an increasing amount of people are working well over 40 hours per week and yet are dependent on foodstamps and live paycheck to paycheck since upward mobility has all but vanished and the wages are not keeping up with inflation. People who are poor are not lazy, they are so poor they can't even afford to be lazy.

And don't need to work hard to succeed? Perfect description of most CEOs, Analysts and Stockbrokers, especially high frequency traders. All you need for those is enough money to get it starting, not be an idiot and being fully devoid of any empathy.

What have increased most in western countries is purchase on frivolous stuff. And sorry but paychecks only increase when you increase productivity, any other way just mean creating inflation.

Would you like to live in Brazil where we get 5-10% increase every single year? But that is basically ate by inflation (and/or generate inflation) while the tax isn't corrected the same speed.