or maybe i just hang with dumbos?

lol i took my IQ test online just used the first google hit

Lol yeah gb, it's not a big deal tho cas it's easy for us to read people if they don't know how smart you are.


Dead: I think mr.k is pointing out that wealth condensation isn't a reflection of intelligence or luck but rather a flawed and undeniably unjust system. Ask yourself, would Socrates or Plato approve of unregulated capitalism in their "just" societies?

Before contesting this point as delusion or utopian let me ask, are you willing to admit the top 400 are not collectively just as productive as the bottom 50% of the US population? That is to say: they are not as integral to the economy as the bottom 150million people in the US?

BO: "Ask yourself, would Socrates or Plato approve of unregulated capitalism in their "just" societies?"

Nope because they both endorsed dictatorships in their writing.

BO: "are you willing to admit the top 400 are not collectively just as productive as the bottom 50% of the US population"

Yes, absolutely.

BO: "Ask yourself, would Socrates or Plato approve of unregulated capitalism in their "just" societies?"

Nope because they both endorsed dictatorships in their writing.

BO: "are you willing to admit the top 400 are not collectively just as productive as the bottom 50% of the US population"

Yes, absolutely.

Misread your last one.

Top 400 is more productive then bottom 50%.

as far as money consolidation, i am on the standard republican side, less taxes, smaller govt, etc etc....

but even i am starting to get queasy at how exponential the income scale is becoming in america. im not saying put a cap on how much you can earn. but we should definitely be taxing the rich as much as we used to under, say, the reagan administration.

i feel that the middle class (lets be honest, p sure we are all middle class here) has slowly been manipulated into believing that they are part of the elite class. its almost like the super-elite-rich have realized that the key to them being as greedy as possible is to convince the middle class that they are equals ("hey, we both worked hard to get where we are, or at least our immigrant parents did, so why the fuck should the govt take our hard-earned money and give it to people who dont deserve it??") well, i think that argument is flawed. the middle class is statistically closer to the poor than it is to the super-rich. yet, we have a tendency to want to be pooled with people richer than us (human nature).

so personally, i feel we should increase taxes on the richer. while still reducing the size of the govt. meh.

a question that will might develop your IQ to think about
http://artige.no/bilde/7242

i got 79 :D

Income Inequality is always talked about in nominal terms and not in real value terms.

Here is food for thought: What was the difference between poor and rich in Medieval area? The rich traveled in four horse stage coaches and the poor walked.

Whats the difference between rich and poor in today's world? The rich travel in an expensive car and the poor travel in a cheap car; but they BOTH travel in cars!

My point is; nominally the equality is worse; but in real value the equality is still much better in the USA then in most areas of the world/history.