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Originally Posted by kendo65
In UK the richest 1% control a quarter of the total wealth.
69% of land is owned by 0.3 % of the population.
In 1997 the Uk's thousand richest held wealth of £99 billion; in 2010 this had risen to £336 billion.
In both USA and UK over the last 30 years real wages have declined - a direct consequence of neoliberal economics with ever-increasing globalisation and outsourcing of jobs. This decline in real wages was the main reason for the massive expansion in credit needed by ordinary families to sustain their standard of living. We saw how that ended in 2008.
Forget your socialist and Marxist bogeymen. Your real worry should be the current version of capitalism that is the most efficient means ever devised of transferring wealth from the middle and lower classes to the already rich.
As the American and European middle classes continue to see their standard of living eroded, and as we edge closer to the seemingly inevitable collapse of the Euro maybe you should remind yourself that it wasn't Marxism or socialism that created this mess.
edit: and the atheists didn't have too much to do with it either.. 
and I'll just point out that I don't consider myself to be either a socialist, Marxist or athiest |
It's basically a matter of how bad someone wants to be wealthy. Many inspiring stories out there, people get great ideas and work hard to fulfill the dream...the mess you speak of is result of very large governments and the entitlement payouts for all those gov. worker retirees, and other hand outs IMHO