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Originally Posted by CosmicTang
Will, you make a show of wanting to metaphorically hang those at the bottom gaming the system to get a free ride, and I agree with you there. But you can't seriously give a pass to rich people and assume they made it to the top honestly and without trampling on the backs of people with no money and no way to protect their rights or enforce the rules to make it a fair game.
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How do you know? Out of every 1 rich person I know, at least 3 have worked their asses off day and night, 12 hour days for years, to get to the top. I think the idea that the "rich cheat to become rich" is either a myth, or a really bad exaggeration.
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This country is not a free-loving democracy where everyone has the same opportunities. That's the bullshit line they feed everyone and we all buy it because deep down we all hope to get rich one day and live a good life. This country is more and more a plutocracy--rule by the wealthy elite. Bankers, Wall St. types, CEOs of MNCs and the politicians who do their bidding enjoy the fruits of a rigged game while making their money on the backs of everyone else.
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By that logic, every country is run by the wealthy elite for the most part. This isn't really saying anything new.
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A free market capitalist system is an illusion. The game is fixed and most buy it because they hope that one day they get to sit at the adults' table. Until there's some REAL reform there is no way to call this a free country or a market economy. What we have is a plutocracy.
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Actually, while we don't have a true free market economy, up until Clinton, the government for the most part, stayed out of economic affairs. The game is NOT "fixed", unless you don't know anything about economics. The government can definitely swing it one way or another with their propaganda, but they haven't gone beyond that, although with Obama and Bernanke, we've gotten closer to real government intervention in economics than we've ever had.