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^ the thing is that so much of our wealth is not doing anything. it's not creating jobs, it's not creating better infrastructure, it's not building schools or hospitals or fire departments. corporations and extremely wealthy individuals merely sit on it and methodically collect more to sit on. the country is literally withering away because of this. it's fundamentally no different than the countries in africa who are lead by warlords and whom we are so fond of calling corrupt, the only difference is scale.
think about it man. wealth isn't a thing, it represents something. labor is the real wealth. every single american worker labors in their field for the wealth of the nation, and every year the american worker takes home less money while taking on more debt. how do you not see a problem with this? it's not a simple matter of "lower taxes on businesses so they can pay more wages." our economy and systyms of commerce have been built from the ground up to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. there's a reason that that adage has been around for centuries.
the solution isn't "TAKE FROM THE RICH SO ALL THE LOWLIFES CAN HAVE FREE STUFF!!!!!" it's going to take an entirely new economic paradigm that can ensure consistent growth among all sectors. it just so happens, though, that such begins at the birth of our every citizen whom we have the duty of nurturing toward the level of productivity this aim requires. hell, it even means a rethinking of what we mean by "productivity."
it's going to take a fuckload of work, whatever it is. and i'm tired of you dismissing everything that goes contrary to the status quo as "liberal dem side." shit's ridiculous but i don't expect you to be above it
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