Video Showing the Huge Gap Between Super Rich and Everyone Else Goes Viral

More class warfare yay.

Okay, I get that the distribution of wealth in the country is skewed heavily in favor of the wealthy. And I get that the authors of that video think that this is a bad thing (else why the lugubrious/menacing music).

Here's the fundamental question, however: Does a skewed distribution of wealth make me any less of a person or make my life any less worth living?

I would submit that, so long as I can supply myself with the necessities of life and some quantum of the things that I might not need but want, then, no, it does not.

Bill Gates has many, many times more money than I have. Does it make him happier than I am? More of a person than I am? Does it have any real impact on me whatsoever? Not really.

Leftist thinkers like to posit that leftists are more concerned with the interests of the collective, the arts, learning, caring for others and that sort of thing; and that the right/republicans/conservatives are simply money grubbing, shallow greed heads. It has always stuck me as ironic, then, that those on the left spend so much of their time jealously pondering other people's money and figuring ways to classify its accumulation as a social ill and then how to get their hands on it.

That shocked the hell out of me!

...and the longer Obama dries up the Middle class,
which was always traditionally the "cushion" for the USA economically the more you will only see THE HAVES versus THE HAVE NOTS.


...and that is EXACTLY what they are trying to do....polarize the USA.
...divide and conquer.




Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 03/04/2013 07:42 PM

The game is rigged dumb ass.

It has NOTHING to do with right/left or presidents.

When are you gonna get it?

Please. Wake the fuck up.

And btw, my middle class family is better off now and not because Obama or Bush or any president did a fucking thing but because we made it happen.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That rush limbaugh pic is such bullshit.

Obama seems to be making his cigar puffin', silver n gold tie wearing, fat ass pretty rich.

i fear this will lead to a new civil war
between the rich and the poor
but
that's why they want to take your guns.

Spoken like a true fool. Deflecting the problem from the real perps and placing it on the President's shoulders. This has been going on for a very long time, exponentially increasing in the 80's. Yeah, blame it on the black guy, the Democrat.

The thing that most people don't understand about "wealth distribution" is that there is no set amount of wealth or money. Rich people being rich has ZERO affect on your ability to get rich and have money too. There is no set amount of money that the rich are somehow hoarding and preventing you from getting


Just because some guy has a trillion dollars does not mean he is preventing YOU from having ANYTHING.

There is no set amount of wealth. Rich people being rich has ZERO affect on your ability to get rich too. There is no set amount of money that the rich are hoarding.

right on.
after viewing this vid you can either whine "unfair!"
or you can do something about it.
(work harder, start a business, save, invest, etc)

Damn i knew it was bad but is it really THAT bad? Cant wait till that vid gets out there more!

Bullshit.

I call bullshit!

The point is that the elite have their foot on the necks of the vast majority, causing the climb to more wealth to be extremely more difficult than it need be.

I'm part of the 10-15% and I would say I'm actually pretty lazy but those folks at the bottom must be REALLY lazy or bad at managing money, I really don't know.

1,000,000 views. People waking up!

Agree. keynesian-tards abound.

marked for later

Obama has nothing to do with it

This also proves that poor and mid class Americans are slaves. The future for each of us is determined by the decisions of an unelected Federal Reserve Banking Corp. They are owned and controlled by the top 1%. They own the money therefore they own you. They determine the value of your money, which is not true wealth. The money we use is only a tool that is used to purchase items from companies and corporations that are owned by the people who determine the value of that tool. They can manipulate the people in so many ways with the system that we have to use that there is no doubt that we are slaves.

There are still to many people in America who are ignorant to this, and when told about it, they go blank. This is a problem. The education system put in place by the puppet leaders has succeeded in the plan of the elites. That plan is dumbing, and it worked and continues to work. Even after kids have left the school system they are continually dumbed by a different info delivery system, Mass Media.

We that are awake face a huge struggle even before the enormous struggle. The huge one is shaking up the sleepy so that they see how the truth is far away from the lies they've been told, that alone is a massive task. The enormous one is changing the system or maybe at least surviving what may come from the change.

The struggle is within.

Taxes under Obama are lower than Reagan.

'Socialism,' is the new buzz word, now used to instil fear & paranoia by demonizing anyone who challenges, or thinks about challenging (thoughtcrime) the elite.

The truth is the profits generated are capitalistic, & the losses are socialistic, as in, paid for by the taxpayers!

Ever felt like you've been conned?

Damn, you're right. I hadn't realized this. Thanks for the eye opener.

Yeah.....Nov 7th 2012.

Yes, people are waking up. I live a very comfortable life, have many advantages, know many other wealthy people. Frankly we mostly hang out together cause we have access to the same things. Money tends to hang with money.

yet I can tell you that this 1% is so wealthy, so in control that most of us are absolutely ignorant to the difference. Realize that it takes 200 2%ers to equal 1 1%er. its beyond ridiculousness. This absolute control is ending. When I see someone here cheering this on, that person, for me, looses credibility because they offer blind allegiance to someone that really would rather see them dead than care.

Hmmmm - whilst I totally agree that the CEO's etc have rigged the game so they get obscene rewards for being members of an elite club.

Wealth distribution is even more skewed in most of the rest of the world and historically as well.

The wealth of a citizen lies not just their bank account balance - but access to the communal infrastructures - roads hospitals, educational opportunities, internet, media, parks etc etc. In that sense we are all inconceivably wealthier than any previous generations.

The fact remains that freemarket capitalism has lifted more people from poverty, disease, ignorance etc than any other system - the average person lives like the wealthy elites of centuries past.

It is crystal clear to me.. that what the rich make..what the gubmint spends .. what the national debt is.. none of it really matters.. when you have billions and trillions of dollars..it all becomes play money.. just print more if you feel like it.. Money is just about control.. and they could makes us all millionaires if they wanted too.. but they want us poor.. and they hold us there.. on purpose.. so we will become even poorer.. so they can offer us a solution.. and you know what that solution is..

Blame teh joos!!!!!!

Blame teh joos!!!!!!

What increase?

In the 1950's the top tax Bracket was 90%