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post 1513622971 07-27-2017, 05:59 PM
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We live in a dysgenic society. $223 trillion of our world’s wealth is not in your wallet, is it? What’s up with the wealth gap anyhow?

Our monetary system is run for bankers, by bankers. Our health-care system is run by pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies for their own gain. Billionaires at the top of biotech and agricultural corporations, given ‘personhood’, dictate our food supply, and our energy supply is held hostage by equal maniacal greed. The ‘military’ – well that system isn’t in place to protect you and I, the average citizen, it is in place to protect the banks, the pharmaceutical companies and the corporations. The politicians – they aren’t in their positions to be ‘the voice of the people’ – they are there to act with herd-like mentality, propping up the centralist agenda, and to go home to bed thinking they are safe from the trajectory of their ill-imagined actions.This society allows for a huge displacement of wealth, and the stealing of resources from every conceivable area to form a massive load of debt – one so huge it enslaves us for decades, if not centuries to come to the elite class. If you think that billionaire robber barons had all the cash, just wait. Think one million times one million to equal true wealth disparity.

Even John D. Rockefeller, the richest American ever, saw his wealth peak in 1913 at around $900 million, or 2.5% of the country's GDP that year. The disparity between the have’s and have-nots is becoming lost in our mental capacity to digest such staggering numbers. Are you even sure how many millions are in a trillion? Most Americans don’t know. Whether it is money they have or don’t have—it’s a confounding numerical value.

Our current debt (deficit) is equal to 12 trillion – and growing. $1 trillion of that was spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. To put this in perspective, if you started a business with a trillion dollars and lost $1 million a day, every day for 365 days, it would still take another 1,000 years to lose all of your trillion-dollar investment.

“A new word is achieving ubiquity. The word has always been with us and at times has been a beacon to attract the friends of liberty and opportunity. But now I’m afraid it is beginning to be used as a justification for social and economic policies that will limit the expansion of both liberty and opportunity. The word? Inequality. More specifically, the word has become problematic when used in close proximity to the word income. There are those who believe that income inequality is the proximate cause of the Great Recession, if not the imminent demise of Western Civilization, pushing us into a dystopian world that will come to resemble the one depicted in the movie Blade Runner.” —John Mauldin

This society – our society, according to a recent Credit Suisse annual Global Wealth Report will create 11 trillionaires in the next decade. The report also states that global wealth has more than doubled in the past ten years – so where did all the money go? The 1% really hold all the wealth, but it isn’t just affecting the US. The planet as a whole is suffering from this inequality.
just lol at the people who defend corporate plutocracy
post 1513623171 07-27-2017, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted By Vhagar
Of course you don't. If you have an ounce of sense you realize the ridiculousness of what you're whining about.
oh please explain it genius
post 1513623361 07-27-2017, 06:03 PM
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post 1513624571 07-27-2017, 06:13 PM
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Our monetary system is run for bankers, by bankers. Our health-care system is run by pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies for their own gain. Billionaires at the top of biotech and agricultural corporations, given ‘personhood’, dictate our food supply, and our energy supply is held hostage by equal maniacal greed. The ‘military’ – well that system isn’t in place to protect you and I, the average citizen, it is in place to protect the banks, the pharmaceutical companies and the corporations. The politicians – they aren’t in their positions to be ‘the voice of the people’ – they are there to act with herd-like mentality, propping up the centralist agenda, and to go home to bed thinking they are safe from the trajectory of their ill-imagined actions.This society allows for a huge displacement of wealth, and the stealing of resources from every conceivable area to form a massive load of debt – one so huge it enslaves us for decades, if not centuries to come to the elite class. If you think that billionaire robber barons had all the cash, just wait. Think one million times one million to equal true wealth disparity.

Even John D. Rockefeller, the richest American ever, saw his wealth peak in 1913 at around $900 million, or 2.5% of the country's GDP that year. The disparity between the have’s and have-nots is becoming lost in our mental capacity to digest such staggering numbers. Are you even sure how many millions are in a trillion? Most Americans don’t know. Whether it is money they have or don’t have—it’s a confounding numerical value.

Our current debt (deficit) is equal to 12 trillion – and growing. $1 trillion of that was spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. To put this in perspective, if you started a business with a trillion dollars and lost $1 million a day, every day for 365 days, it would still take another 1,000 years to lose all of your trillion-dollar investment.

“A new word is achieving ubiquity. The word has always been with us and at times has been a beacon to attract the friends of liberty and opportunity. But now I’m afraid it is beginning to be used as a justification for social and economic policies that will limit the expansion of both liberty and opportunity. The word? Inequality. More specifically, the word has become problematic when used in close proximity to the word income. There are those who believe that income inequality is the proximate cause of the Great Recession, if not the imminent demise of Western Civilization, pushing us into a dystopian world that will come to resemble the one depicted in the movie Blade Runner.” —John Mauldin

This society – our society, according to a recent Credit Suisse annual Global Wealth Report will create 11 trillionaires in the next decade. The report also states that global wealth has more than doubled in the past ten years – so where did all the money go? The 1% really hold all the wealth, but it isn’t just affecting the US. The planet as a whole is suffering from this inequality.
guess we're just going to ignore this
post 1513625871 07-27-2017, 06:24 PM
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He wouldn't even spend it like peasants would (on 'bling' and pointless ****). He's probably so entrenched in his work to the point where money is just a marker of his success over his competition.
post 1513626041 07-27-2017, 06:26 PM
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So my brother is actually working for the richest man?

My bro works for Amazon and is travelling the world doing business trip.
post 1513626231 07-27-2017, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted By Omnivium
And here comes the "oh you're not a real conservative!" guy as expected. Believe it or not, it is possible to be conservative AND care about people

And strong claiming I'm a liberal in disguise based on one internet post about one specific topic. Clearly that one post lets you know me better than I know myself

There's a certain type of conservative who only seems to care about preserving rich people's money, when they themselves aren't even rich. Those are the ones making us look bad
Your right, he should be forced to sell shares of the company he built! What is wrong with this guy owning a company and employing 10s of thousands?!

Better yet lets just take his shares in his company by force!
post 1513626931 07-27-2017, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted By samsbolton
Didn't read

But how is 90 billion close to a trillion?
UK education at its finest
post 1513627121 07-27-2017, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted By FN91
Your right, he should be forced to sell shares of the company he built! What is wrong with this guy owning a company and employing 10s of thousands?!

Better yet lets just take his shares in his company by force!
you're an idiot srs
post 1513628421 07-27-2017, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted By markduschane
oh please explain it genius
But who was reading comprehension

He created something that changed the way people buy almost everything. He now owns 17% of the company he created and his ownership stake equals 90 billion.

He owns less of his own company than most business owners. The only difference is that his idea was better. All you're doing is whining about it. He has too much is your only point.

If a trillionaire comes into existence it will be no different. Them, or a relative, or whatever will have created something massive in scale. And it's their right to reap the rewards of that. It's that simple.
post 1513628651 07-27-2017, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted By Vhagar
But who was reading comprehension

He created something that changed the way people buy almost everything. He now owns 17% of the company he created and his ownership stake equals 90 billion.

He owns less of his own company than most business owners. The only difference is that his idea was better. All you're doing is whining about it. He has too much is your only point.

If a trillionaire comes into existence it will be no different. Them, or a relative, or whatever will have created something massive in scale. And it's their right to reap the rewards of that. It's that simple.
you clearly haven't read all my posts itt
post 1513629051 07-27-2017, 06:52 PM
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I just don't see the point to life if you are not rich.
post 1513629171 07-27-2017, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted By velvetmudhole
Jeff Bezos just became close to a trillionaire
Still Cuckin On Four Fours, Wrapped In Four Voes
post 1513633771 07-27-2017, 07:37 PM
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He could spread the wealth and give every single person in America $278.55.
post 1513635991 07-27-2017, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted By seanb1979
amazon is now one of the most diversified businesses on the planet - the only way they could tank is if there was a war or the government broke them up - in this global economy monopolies can be a good thing, sadly, since they will develop in other countries and we need our own giant corps to compete with them - google being as powerful as it is is incredibly good for america
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post 1513659971 07-28-2017, 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted By velvetmudhole
you mean the writer who wrote the story provided to OP.

by the way, love that you play golf with your dildo
No, he read it and reported it as being factually true when it wasn't.

Re golf avi, that's a stimp meter, way beyond your level of understanding
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Originally Posted By markduschane
guess we're just going to ignore this
For what it's worth, I agree, and have written about it several times just on here (waste of breath I know )

The issue is not, by the way, that he has 90 billion. Or 900 billion, or several trillion.

The issue is how people at that level of wealth influence the political process. It's why his workers in warehouses need to have their wages subsidised by the government. He doesn't pay a liveable wage. This is true for all these big corporations with lots of low payed employees, which is a substantial sector of even the most developed economies, and always will be.

Basically, all that wealth comes from the taxes of everyone else below him in the pyramid. Our governments aren't very good at collecting that money hence you have a 20 trillion national debt.

In for the negs.
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post 1513660371 07-28-2017, 02:31 AM
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Originally Posted By WZBRAH
Who needs hair when you have money like that
Do you think all bald white guys can relax now?

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Originally Posted By samsbolton
For what it's worth, I agree, and have written about it several times just on here (waste of breath I know )

The issue is not, by the way, that he has 90 billion. Or 900 billion, or several trillion.

The issue is how people at that level of wealth influence the political process. It's why his workers in warehouses need to have their wages subsidised by the government. He doesn't pay a liveable wage. This is true for all these big corporations with lots of low payed employees, which is a substantial sector of even the most developed economies, and always will be.

Basically, all that wealth comes from the taxes of everyone else below him in the pyramid. Our governments aren't very good at collecting that money hence you have a 20 trillion national debt.

In for the negs.
it's a ridiculous thing that is so unsustainable
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he'll be back to 9 billion once trump's 8 years are done
post 1513669281 07-28-2017, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted By markduschane
it's a ridiculous thing that is so unsustainable
Agreed

We need to put a stop to companies becoming more valuable and people owning pieces of those companies
post 1513749681 07-28-2017, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted By Vhagar
Agreed

We need to put a stop to companies becoming more valuable and people owning pieces of those companies
He's referring to the 1%. You don't get that way by being philanthropic.
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Originally Posted By markduschane
it's a ridiculous thing that is so unsustainable
your eyes are just sewn shut huh
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feels good as fuk that the richest man is a bald guy. eat chit haircels LMAOOO
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Originally Posted By AnnacotSteel
Guys, c'mon, that's Kevin Spacey on the left.

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Originally Posted By KRANE
He's referring to the 1%.
No fkn way?

Really?

Thank you for the brilliant insight
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