“Income inequality is not the Problem”

[Ralph]

Actually, it’s people who do have a skill set, work hard for their employer only to see large bonuses go to the CEO and they aren’t equally compensated for making that CEO and stockholders money.

Jealousy: The root cause of socialism: resentment against a person enjoying success or advantage; anger, fear of losing something or someone to a rival.

What does your jealousy demonstrate? The "denarius" (coin of the realm) is your God. You pretend to be interested in equal pay for equal work, but what you are really about is SELF INTEREST.

When working for someone there is an implied agreement.....you agree to work for so much. Its much like the parable of the vineyard workers. The man that owned the vineyard needed workers. He hired some at different parts of the day and told them they would receive a bonus if they could get the harvest in before it ruined. The end of the working day came....the owner paid each a bonus, he paid everyone the same bonus regardless of the time they actually started.

Some became jealous, "We were here first we should get a greater bonus...than those that came at the last hour of the day..." The response of the owner? I did not stipulate how the bonus would be given....you agreed to work for so much per hour, the bonus was a reward.

In the end....we all receive the same reward, non of us are promised anything special....WE ALL DIE, we can't take it with us. You should live by your word and contract...either real or implied and treat others as you yourself would be treated.

SOCIALISM is based upon the concept of jealousy and envy. You are railing against capitalism....and if truth be told, capitalism is what sustains your own life.

The Christian is taught to give unto Caesar what is Caesar's.....and give that which is of God, unto God. As long as "FREE WILL" exists upon earth there can never be any real equality....as man and man alone is capable of directing his own destiny.

In order for any "ISM" to work....free will must be removed from the equation. FREEDOM and SOCIALISM mix about as well as water and oil. Example: Obama Care.....in order for socialized medicine to work one must lose his/her freedom to choose and direct their own health care needs. Socialism is about "Totalitarianism"......not freedom. Equality is but a false flag banner waved around to present the appearance of a noble cause.

 

[gfm7175]

You don't know? here it is in 6 graphs. The wealthy are confiscating the wealth that the workers create.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-inequality-20180807-story.html

Yup, I get it. Incomes aren't equal between everyone. Why should they be?

No, "the wealthy" created that wealth. They created the jobs. And, in order to create even more wealth, they hire people to work for them. People work for them because they wish to acquire wealth as well.

 

[Phantasmal]

Yup, I get it. Incomes aren't equal between everyone. Why should they be?

No, "the wealthy" created that wealth. They created the jobs. And, in order to create even more wealth, they hire people to work for them. People work for them because they wish to acquire wealth as well.

Wealth could not be created without the workers. Try it

 

[CFM]

Wealth could not be created without the workers. Try it

There wouldn't be workers if the wealthy didn't create the jobs for them to work.

 

[Phantasmal]

There wouldn't be workers if the wealthy didn't create the jobs for them to work.

Not true, small businesses are started by ordinary folks very few are wealthy.

 

[gfm7175]

There is a distinction between horrible and damaging income inequality

Define "horrible income inequality". Define "damaging income inequality".

and the difference that exists by the nature of capitalism. Like Teddy Roosevelt said, he begrudged no man a fortune he made by having a good idea that made him wealthy, but passing money down through time is a fortune of a different kind. The wealthy include power with their money and do change the system over time, more and more to their benefit, That is when he was installing the inheritance tax. Even that tax has been beaten and slashed by the wealthy.https://review.chicagobooth.edu/eco...er-mind-1-percent-lets-talk-about-001-percent The top is getting richer by multiples the last 20 years.

Stop trying to steal other people's money. Stealing is immoral.

 

[gfm7175]

Wealth could not be created without the workers. Try it

Sure it can. Plenty of people start out self-employed and then typically hire workers as they expand their business. Others remain self-employed since they don't want to deal with employees. They are still creating wealth all the same, with or without employees.

Many indie game developers, for one example, are a "one-man-show". Some of them will hire employees and grow the size of their company; others choose not to.

How do you think any business gets its start? It is a person (or group of people) who decide(s) to put an idea into action.

 

[CFM]

Define "horrible income inequality". Define "damaging income inequality".


Stop trying to steal other people's money. Stealing is immoral.

To Nordberg, horrible and damaging income inequality means the lowest skilled person not making the same as the highest skilled person.

 

[CFM]

Not true, small businesses are started by ordinary folks very few are wealthy.

Many small businesses are one or two person operations involving only the one or two that started it. There are no workers in the sense you use the word.

How many poor people have started a small business and hired workers?

 

[Phantasmal]

Many small businesses are one or two person operations involving only the one or two that started it. There are no workers in the sense you use the word.

How many poor people have started a small business and hired workers?

Again, you need to educate yourself about how vital small business is to our economy. Stop showing your ignorance.

 

[Gonzomin]

Define "horrible income inequality". Define "damaging income inequality".


Stop trying to steal other people's money. Stealing is immoral.

yes let the wealthy with political power steal. Stealing the money of workers and weak people is fine with you.

 

[CFM]

Again, you need to educate yourself about how vital small business is to our economy. Stop showing your ignorance.

You need to educate yourself that no one can be hired as a worker unless someone else creates the business. The worker does not come first.

 

[gfm7175]

yes let the wealthy with political power steal.

Steal WHAT, exactly?

Stealing the money of workers and weak people is fine with you.

How are "the wealthy" stealing the money of workers? Define "weak people".

 

[evince]

we know you sociopaths don't understand needed laws

 

[gfm7175]

Not true, small businesses are started by ordinary folks very few are wealthy.

Define "ordinary folks".

Small businesses are started by people of varying degrees of wealth.

 

[Truth Detector]

Just found this interesting read. Thought I’d share here:
https://www.hoover.org/research/income-inequality-isnt-problem

Income inequality is the argument of Fascists, fools and dupes.

First, are there good kinds of economic inequality and bad kinds? It is neither good or bad. It is a reality that has existed since the beginning of time.

Second, is it a good idea, as many policymakers and even some economists insist, to reduce inequality by taxing those at the top end more heavily? Government interventionism is NEVER a good idea. Government intervention schemes merely amount to power grab redistribution schemes by dishonest political hacks. Vote for me and I will get you money.

Third, has poverty been increasing? Inequality ebbs and flows.

Poverty in modern times is mostly self induced. The reasons for it are consistent. Lack of education. Drug use. Criminality. We currently are in a time of full employment where anyone wanting a job can find one.

Fourth has economic inequality been increasing? Again, the term economic inequality is laughably inept in that there always will be and always has been inequality. It is human nature. It is a fallacy to believe that it should or could be eliminated.

 

[Truth Detector]

Yeah, income inequality is a real problem.

How so? The only solution leftist elitists have is to make everyone equally miserable.

 

[Truth Detector]

Income inequality alarms lots of the super-rich. They can run, but cannot hide.

Why are the super rich to blame? What are they doing to prevent anyone from inventing something; from getting educated; from finding a job?

 

[Truth Detector]

You don't know? here it is in 6 graphs. The wealthy are confiscating the wealth that the workers create.

How do the wealthy "confiscate" wealth. I cannot imagine a more moronic narrative.

 

[Truth Detector]

Actually, it’s people who do have a skill set, work hard for their employer only to see large bonuses go to the CEO and they aren’t equally compensated for making that CEO and stockholders money.

REALLY? So who is forcing these people to work for less than they believe they are worth? Who is preventing them from finding work elsewhere? I find these Marxist arguments to be weak and moronic.