When mentioning the wealth gap, how come no one talks about the creativity and productivity gap as well? We always hear about the growing divide between rich, poor and "middle class" yet no one ever talks about the ways in which these people live and/or their level of productivity. If you let your average person tell it, they would say that a guy who flips burgers at McDonald's deserves to be paid the same, if not more than Ray Kroc (the founder of the company). They don't take into account that while the burger flipper may be the one performing the function of helping the store to operate, they don't understand that if it weren't for the founder(s), the burger flipper wouldn't even have a job. Not only that, the burger flipper takes on little to no risk by coming to work everyday, therefore he and the other employees are the safest in the company. Whereby the founder put in years of thought, hard work and capital with no guarantee of success in order to make his business work. He took the biggest risk of all. Secondly, addressing the creativity/productivity gap in more detail. Just face the facts --- some people are going to be more productive than others and create more than others and will therefore earn a bigger piece of the pie as a result. There's nothing immoral about that or wrong about that. IE: If we're on some remote island and fishing is our main source of food. Islander #1 fishes with a makeshift fishing pole and captures just enough to feed himself on a daily basis. Whereas, Fisherman #2 creates a net and captures more fish than he can eat in even a month. Fisherman #2 then "sells" those fish to other islanders, thereby making their lives easier. Now the question becomes --- is Fisherman #2 wrong for having becoming wealthy as a result of thinking of a way to produce more and provide people with something they need? Conclusion: You have to be crazy to think that a guy who works within a company deserves the same share of the pie as the guy who worked to create a product or serve that helps millions of people. Also, producers and creators are usually great thinkers, whereas workers are abundant and expendable. You can pull any ole Joe off the street to do most jobs if you simply train him, but it takes a thinking man to create a business. Therefore, those who know how to work with their body will always get paid less than those who work with their mind. Again, nothing unfair about that.
The American dream was about taking a risk, working smart, then reaping reward. Today's libtards frown on that, which is why we're in the shitter now. When I say libtards are America's enemy #1, I mean that in all seriousness. I'll post more after the Super Bowl.
When the "American dream," and the WORK that comes with it, is pissed on by the lunatic left msm, libtards, and free goodies turds, I wonder how we can possibly out-vote that kind of machine...
Voters get their info from MSM for the most part. The new reality is very divorced from actual reality. I'm not sure if anything can be done about that.
It's funny because I've encountered a lot of liberals who voted for Obama during both terms only because he's black. Particularly black liberals, btw. You know...those types who'd call you racist for not supporting Obama if you're non-black or an Uncle Tom if you are black. Anyways, I've met a few of those types who, to my surprise, are actually hard working and are very productive...they hold pretty respectable job titles and even own businesses. These are not your welfare, government assistance types. However, they come from those backgrounds so they believe that voting democrat is somehow remembering where they come from. During the 2012 elections, they called me all kinds of sellouts, Uncle Tom, self-hater, etc., for not supporting Obama but now those same hard-working, productive Obama voters are now complaining to me and telling me that they feel Obama's policies are punishing them for their hard work...and ask me if I know how they can avoid those policies. I told them this before the election and they finally admitted that I was right.
Agreed. However, inflation-adjusted median wages are down tremendously in the past 20 years. Offshoring + exploding bureaucracy + regulation + taxes here at home.
Born into a wealthy family, a child is more likely to have an enriched environment, and so develop greater intelligence, to learn productive skills, and have contacts, and become a manager or owner. For a child born into poverty all that is much less likely. This is not to say that "the race always goes" to the children of the privileged, but that is the way to bet. : )