It's kinda ironic coming from top8Yeah stop ignoring the stupid question Filthy Frank

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It's kinda ironic coming from top8Yeah stop ignoring the stupid question Filthy Frank
I'll rephrase the question, do you agree with reports of the shrinking middle class in the West at the expense of wealth concentration by an elite billionaire class?Thats because no disrespect to @Worried2Death , the question isnt a good one.
Do you want 1/1000th of $1000 or 1/1000000 of $1,000,000,000,000,000? Communists all obsesses over the size of their slice ignoring the size of the pie and the fact they probably didnt contribute to its baking.
I miss the grumpy ole bugger.... don't mention KiwiBuild or Carlaw Park.HEYZEUS SPARE ME!!!
someone bring bruce back, man.
He was right about Anne Applebaum, she's still pretty hot, I can watch her talk for hours.HEYZEUS SPARE ME!!!
someone bring bruce back, man.
he certainly had a knack for calming a situation, but also inflaming one, in the best way too.I miss the grumpy ole bugger.... don't mention KiwiBuild or Carlaw Park.
Both are happening but are separate yet interwoven. Ie Kiwis middle class is being gutted and you don’t have an elite billionaire class.I'll rephrase the question, do you agree with reports of the shrinking middle class in the West at the expense of wealth concentration by an elite billionaire class?
Where's the capital going then, offshore?Both are happening but are separate yet interwoven. Ie Kiwis middle class is being gutted and you don’t have an elite billionaire class.
IMHO economic dead weight everywhere. Govts hoover up 30% and produce fuck all. More regulations; fines etc.Where's the capital going then, offshore?
Globalisation.I'll rephrase the question, do you agree with reports of the shrinking middle class in the West at the expense of wealth concentration by an elite billionaire class?
And looking holistically, is it worth the wests incomes being stagnant when it’s making a huge different to billions of people in the third world?Globalisation.
Our middle class jobs have been outsourced to third world countries.
Those countries people have had a massive increase in income, quality of life and standard of living at the expense of the wests middle class.
Are you saying we should have siezed the means of production instead of outsourcing to slaves? Who's responsible for thisThere’s isn’t global reciprocal trade in the west, there’s everybody does fuck all and China does everything.
Be careful comrade, that sounds a bit too fair to everyoneAnd looking holistically, is it worth the wests incomes being stagnant when it’s making a huge different to billions of people in the third world?
Over the long term incomes will even out but no gain without pain?
Might have been a better option than creating a welfare class without the means to support it.Are you saying we should have siezed the means of production instead of outsourcing to slaves? Who's responsible for this
That's a bit Marxist, hope you don't start adopting cats and letting your personal hygiene goMight have been a better option than creating a welfare class without the means to support it.
Globalism is the capitalist system at work isn’t it?Be careful comrade, that sounds a bit too fair to everyone
Except the shrinking middle class West, but think of it as weight redistribution, they were too fat!It’s the capitalist system at work isn’t it?
Capitalism eventually makes everyone better off!