American hero thrashed...

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[The Comrade]

[Ben Huh]

Whatever you say bruh. I am a month away from buying a 3,000 sq. ft. house straight cash, so go ahead and think you affect me that much. It might be the only victory, moral or otherwise, you get in your life.

Everyone here knows what your M.O. is, or do I have to remind you again that between the both of us it was you that told someone to commit suicide over the internet? Stay classy.

[Ben Huh]

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[Ben Huh]

[The Comrade]

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Anyways, creating a more equitable distribution of wealth is my number one priority.

There is no reason why the average income should not be multiple times higher than it is now. The productivity gains have happened, but the wealth is just being given away to people whose productivity ended long before their income stopped growing. Seinfeld is worth a billion dollars, and guess what? That is for work he did twenty five years ago, and now he just collects interest on it forever. But apparently middle class people organizing to get the same deal is wrong, either because they have some sort of weird moral obligation to work or because they need to sacrifice their self interest to the Mob.

There is no reason why, when such a small segment of society owns such an enormous amount of wealth, people who make on average $50k a year should be viewed as the reason why we can't pay for the government, especially since they account for a tenth (at worst) of the budget.

I want to see more people working less, making more. Not more people working less, making less. Profits are sky high, productivity has increased exponentially, yet only a few are actually getting a better life. It's stupid and unsustainable. When we lose 30% of the workforce to automation, and another 30% to other countries, we'll either say that everybody should work for forty or fifty years for shit money, or we'll instead start allocating more wealth more widely.

You can do that by introducing a guaranteed minimum income, or by organizing with your coworkers to secure your financial future when the work is gone. I support either, now and then.

[Winchester]

[Ben Huh]

That's def a major issue with these types of pensions. Once they outgrow the originally allotted budget, they simply start paying the difference via taxes to the point where most of the pension becomes de facto subsidized. It's a practice that rears it's head everywhere in politics, as like you said they continually keep kicking the can down the street until it isn't their problem anymore.