Income and You

[SubwayGuy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110223/ts_yblog_thelookout/separate-but-unequal-charts-show-growing-rich-poor-gap

 

Looks like I'm not just making this stuff up after all.

 

 

This REPUTABLE STUDY says 3 things:

 

1-The rich control way too much of the wealth

2-People don't understand this, and actually think the rich control less

3-People actually WANT the rich to control a lot less (and that's not coming from a sense of greed because what they "want" sure doesn't LOOK like greed)

[CenSin]

Social entrepreneurship is the key to changing the wealth distribution. The keyword is "social."

[lilbluefoxie]

Social entrepreneurship is the key to changing the wealth distribution. The keyword is "social."

 

wouldnt that just move the money from the rich people to the popular people

[SoSpectacular]

That article and most of the replies below it make me sad.

 

I feel like they should come to New York City and say that. We're practically getting pushed out of the city here...

[CenSin]

wouldnt that just move the money from the rich people to the popular people

That's the idea. The rich will always be outnumbered by their comparatively poor peers. When it comes to social entrepreneurship, having power in numbers—the same power in numbers that the rich are exploiting to keep themselves rich—is the key.

 

Think about a typical corporate structure. A lower level position will almost never earn you more money than a higher level position. Upwards mobility is only a pipe dream for a few because as you go up the pay structure, there are fewer and fewer open spaces to compete for, and some positions might never open up, because if anyone is getting fired first it's always the ones down below. This is the scheme that enables people to become rich, stay rich, and keep everyone else poor.

 

Social entrepreneurship eschews the idea of a rigid pay structure, as everyone is independently in control of their income. It runs on the idea that you invest time, money, and effort into something that will grow. I have never worked within any major corporation, but I know for a fact that investing more time and effort into your job doesn't get you very far.

[SubwayGuy]

That's the idea. The rich will always be outnumbered by their comparatively poor peers. When it comes to social entrepreneurship, having power in numbers—the same power in numbers that the rich are exploiting to keep themselves rich—is the key.

 

Think about a typical corporate structure. A lower level position will almost never earn you more money than a higher level position. Upwards mobility is only a pipe dream for a few because as you go up the pay structure, there are fewer and fewer open spaces to compete for, and some positions might never open up, because if anyone is getting fired first it's always the ones down below. This is the scheme that enables people to become rich, stay rich, and keep everyone else poor.

 

Otherwise known as a pyramid scheme. Corporate America is a pyramid scheme. Lots of useless people doing not so much at the top while making a bunch while the underlings scramble to do 95% of the work just to pay their bills and achieve a reasonable middle class standard of living.

 

A solution to this problem taxes corporations very little, but taxes either based on wealth, or taxes progressively to hit high income individuals hardest (and does so with TEETH, not like the present policy). It also comes with a high estate tax that hits most people since wealth is not earned if it is inherited, and contains provisions that discourage the dilution of wealth by using taxes, tariffs, and laws to limit the amount of outsourcing that can be done by US companies, as well as strong fiscal and monetary policy that does not seek to devalue the dollar. It then expends government resources wisely on services that benefit the common person - education, law enforcement, fire, transportation, and infrastructure and the workers who staff jobs in those fields who are middle class.

 

The wealth in that case is not "artificially distributed" but different social classes have equal access to the means of production and are compensated fairly for their role in a balanced economy.

[Trainmaster5]

Otherwise known as a pyramid scheme. Corporate America is a pyramid scheme. Lots of useless people doing not so much at the top while making a bunch while the underlings scramble to do 95% of the work just to pay their bills and achieve a reasonable middle class standard of living.

 

A solution to this problem taxes corporations very little, but taxes either based on wealth, or taxes progressively to hit high income individuals hardest (and does so with TEETH, not like the present policy). It also comes with a high estate tax that hits most people since wealth is not earned if it is inherited, and contains provisions that discourage the dilution of wealth by using taxes, tariffs, and laws to limit the amount of outsourcing that can be done by US companies, as well as strong fiscal and monetary policy that does not seek to devalue the dollar. It then expends government resources wisely on services that benefit the common person - education, law enforcement, fire, transportation, and infrastructure and the workers who staff jobs in those fields who are middle class.

 

The wealth in that case is not "artificially distributed" but different social classes have equal access to the means of production and are compensated fairly for their role in a balanced economy.

 

Soon they'll be calling you and I revolutionaries out here. Good post.

[Nova RTS 9147]

A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a Big Corp CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, "Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."