How do we fix income inequality in America?

How do we fix income inequality in America?

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why do you think it would ever be equal?

you work hard faggot

not equal, just more fair.

the gap between the rich and the poor is at its largest since the great depression

So we outsource a shit ton of labor in our tech sector overseas and important a shit ton of nearly free labor from the third world and you're wondering why the people who sell their labor on the free market are struggling and the people who buy the cheap labor are prospering? Are you retarded?

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Capital isn't cheap kids.

I can't remember who said it but the expression "it's difficult to make a 10 dollars into a million dollars, and inevitable to turn a million dollars into a billion dollars."

The people that get this rich do so because they earned the cash and grew it competently.

Also how does the income inequality thing work anyway? Do these morons think the rich are somehow taking money from everyone else? (Suppose tax but they pay that)

> implying people are poor because of income inequality
> implying whores who get creampied by Tyrone, drop out of high school,and have five illegitimate children with absent fathers are poor because of the evil 1%
Marxism. Not even once.

got an updated sheet?

desu i am in the 10% and i dont feel like it.

>How to make income inequality even worse

Stop importing millions of dirt broke brown people.

>The people that get this rich do so because they earned the cash and grew it competently.

Or maybe they have institutionalized advantage and many are born into the wealth? Just an idea.

you don't, stalin

stop taking illegal immigrants to have higher salaries. Your middle class is shrinking into Poland tier and low class is like Africa supported by Red cross.

Those digits don't lie. Immigration kills the middle class. Just bringing the third world here.

Even the poorest people in the US lead better lives that kings just two centuries ago. Stop being a cuck.

>hurr I don't understand economics
A rising tide lifts all boats.

stop shopping at walmart and shit and spend a few more cents in local businesses instead.

So you have no real argument other than you're butthurt someone has more money than you even though it has no true impact on your life.

The truth of the satanic quints is upon you

PRAISE KEK

the same way we solve everything

vote trump

Stop outsourcing labor, stop favoring international corporations and financiers over American workers. Stop trying to make a job market in which fifty men compete for a single grain of rice.

Wealth and Asset Tax, the government can own a percentage of the wealth and when that asset is sold or transferred the people get their cut. Seem like the fairest way to tackle the super rich problem.

>How do we fix income inequality in America?
Nuke Amerifartland?That way everyone will be equally dead and money won't be a problem.

This, desu. It's the responsibility of business to incentivize workers to enter their fields, there is not ever a "shortage of workers" unless there was recently a war, famine or plague. You have to offer the training and wages that bring workers.

Foreign labor is cheating our country and businesses that do that shouldn't be able to operate in the country.

It does have an impact though. They control the means of production, which needs to be collectively owned in order to end gross distortions of unearned wealth. The parasites who live off the labour of others.

Income inequality must be the biggest fucking red-herring in politics.

You're life isn't shit because of the inequality, although it is related. Your life is shit because those rich people got rich by cutting costs by lobbying the government to make it easy to outsource and to let in as many people as possible in order to cut labour costs. If there was still plenty of decent paying stable jobs no one would give a fuck about income inequality.

Fix the laws to stop working for foreigners and big business and income inequality will sort itself out.

Never as long as we have unregulated immigration, and a massive welfare state. all people are not equally capable intellectually or physically.

Doesn't welfare help those at the very bottom though? Lol.

Also how will regulating immigration stop the top .1% of America from having more wealth than the bottom 90% of Americans?

> how do we fix income inequality
require EVERYONE to work as hard and invest as intelligently as "the 1%" for just as many generations

sadly this will require a great deal of forced labour and culling of the weak

i hope you dont object, but i really dont care if you do.

Easy, get a skill that pays more.

>the 1% worked really hard to get where they are!

lmfao if you actually fall for this meme.

So the rich don't have 2 work 2 keep the business going? They didn't have 2 break their backs 2 start that corporation? Pay 4 u own goddamn big screen TV!

It doesn't work like that. The whole world is going to become the 1%?

You don't. You increase income mobility.

Build

>fix income inequality
what's wrong with it?

if you actually just care about the poor, then the correct question is: "How do we improve the prosperity for the poor?"

My answer to that would be that the poor are doing better relative to their ancestors because purchasing power is higher than historically. I think education, not necessarily schooling, to impart knowledge of personal finance and how debt and interest works would help them more than anything. Making the market more free with less regulations would help them as well.

>he still thinks the majority of the 1% got there without hard work
poorfags, when will they learn?

You cannot be serious
You think the 1% got there because they worked hard? Or invested 'intelligently'? They would be very proud to see good goy actively disrupting discourse that might touch on how plutocratic exploitation rearranges governments to support the 1% at the expense of everyone else.

and HE DOES IT FOR FREE

stop importing low IQ people which makes inequality seem larger than it actually is?

Has any country gotten close?

that's not a bad thing though

work smart not hard dumbass

Got a job?
Gonna pay your bills and shit?
Tell you what - the more you make, the more we'll take in taxes to buy votes from professional leeches.
Good?

>attacking Americans on the bottom instead of the top .1% who own as much wealth as the bottom 90% of Americans

Why.

Acknowledge the uneven distribution of intelligence and recognize that it is a heritable trait unlike height, which is why our increasingly meritocratic, knowledge-based economy is producing the rapidly accelerating, intervention-resistant socioeconomic inequality that it is.

Our current economy can be summed up as being as if we were relying on professional basketball, football, and heavyweight rowing as the sole sources of economic opportunity, but it was politically incorrect to acknowledge that people were of varying heights and that having tall parents was the determining factor of whether someone was tall themselves.

Now, we're left wondering why ~90% of the population is being locked out of the post-2008 economic gains, and it's all because we're afraid of the truth and the implications it carries for our economic planning and regulatory climate.

*Not unlike height

>getting scammed on a massive scale
>not a bad thing

>immigration kills middle class and lowers salaries

Not neccesarily doubting this, but are there any studies that show this to be true?

It's not the fact that inequality exists you strawmanning bastard. It's the level of inequality and the fact that it's increasing steadily all the time.

If you don't think there's a cohesive scam in pic related you are naive as fuck. The filthy rich have bought your government and have used it to siphon wealth from you to them. It's not rocket science.

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Nothing to see here

This is totally fair what're you entitled lmao

Mandatory birth control for poor people.

America is not a meritocracy. Far from it, actually.

Most of the people on top are there simply because they won the genetic lottery. They're born into wealth and privilege.

Hmmm

Deport jews

This is how it always was peasant, stay in the precariat. Rich people would never fuck over poor people to make more money.

Really makes you think...

You're being fucked over.
Honestly if you can't see what's happening here you have been brainwashed to a North Korea level of delusion about your living situation.

>not equal, just more fair.

at what point do you stop and say yes, this is fair?

Do you not think a man who has created a product everyone uses in their daily lives deserves the wealth he has created?

How exactly is it an issue that some people have more money than others if they didn't acquire it through illegal means?

Every single person is different and unequal so it makes sense that some will naturally acquire more money than others.

Your boss keeps giving himself a raise, tripling it eventually and none of the workers get a raise. Is this fair to you? Does a light not go off in your head and say "Hmm, maybe I'm being fucked over..."

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Aren't entertainers/actors partly to blame here?

Those at the tip top of their industry don't produce anywhere near enough jobs for the money they take in. An entrepreneur hires workers to get their product or service out. An entertainer or actor does their job or sells their brand/likeness and nobody else gets a piece of that besides them and their management company.

>The McDonald's CEO got his salary super-sized. The fast food chain's chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, brought home a whopping $7.91 million last year — a 368% raise over his 2014 salary of $1.69 million —while low-wage McDonald's workers are striking around the country for a livable income.

>1.9 million employees


Give them their dollar

Is this a serious question

No, the filthy rich have bought your government and are using public policy to siphon wealth from the bottom 99% of Americans. It's verifiable.

scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

But you have yet to give even a single reason why this trend is bad or unjustified.

>Those at the tip top of their industry don't produce anywhere near enough jobs for the money they take in

Then why would they be paid it? If they didnt produce enough wealth to justify why they are paid what they are paid why would anyone keep them?

this

Because you're being fucked over. Where before average Americans wages were increasing with productivity, then they stagnated while almost all of the new profit went to the top.

It's called a scam and it's a massive one.

venezuela is pretty close

>America's bottom 90% lives better off than the top 50%of countries with lesser inequalities issues
>how do we fix income inequality

You don't
Daily reminder that income inequality is a farce brought up by Marxists trying to explain why capitalism hasn't collapsed on it's own and that they rather getting everyone to live equally poor than having a society where meritocacry dictates how far you get while some REALLY small minority gets supper rich because most countries will crony the fuck out of them into stardoom.

Simple you can't fix a situation where nothing is wrong

Because if we kept doing things before this scam started we wouldn't be dealing with shit like this.

cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-handle-a-500-surprise-bill/

Fewer international students taking up sought-after seats that create graduates that can contribute to a job market?

Nah. Expecting state programs to favor fucking citizens in need over Ching Chongs from rich families who probably forged their transcripts anyway? That's racist. I raff at your sub 3.8 gpas, white people.

The irony of a board who vehemently rejects the idea of being manipulated taken advantage of and exploited completely defending being the bad end of one of the biggest scams in the history of our entire country is lost on you.

>manipulated taken advantage of and exploited

Free to leave my friend which is more than you can say for any other nation on earth

"Born into wealth and privilege"=born with the 60-80% heritable genes for high intelligence that your parents gave you since high IQ is the single strongest predictor of high socioeconomic status.

The banks and the 0.1% are fucking people over for sure, but the left is just as complicit in the screw-job by clinging to the fiction that we're all equal and most poor people are just a few opportunities away from being neurosurgeons and quant fund managers, despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence to the contrary.

And furthermore, this fictional narrative has actually made things worse for the lower class, by easing the collective consciences of the left while we strip this country of the industrial jobs that were the single best shot that those low-IQ populations on the left side of the Bell curve had ad making a decent living at work.

So because we cling to this fiction, we have more and more of the lower class checking out of the workforce entirely, because all that we've left for them is service jobs at Walmart and McDonald's that will never be worth more than $10 an hour.

Whereas if we acknowledged the 600lb gorilla of IQ, then ensuring the survival of sustainably high-wage low-skill work stops being merely something nice to strive for, and suddenly becomes an issue of critical importance for economic policy wonks and sociology majors alike.

>russia has more equality than us
>turkroaches are better than us
>we're equal to china and mexico
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Americans are overwhelmingly transitioning from industrial jobs to service jobs. It's silly to claim that our productivity is increasing while we produce literally no products.

Most Americans live far beyond their means. The vast majority of us have motor vehicles, expensive cell phones, eat expensive food, and have our houses furnished with a plethora of amenities. It's not that we don't make enough money because the evil job creators are taking it all; we simply as individuals spend a little too much.

>the more equality you have the better

false premise

>shifting the blame for the actions of the king impovershing the peasants to the peasants

The level of metaphorical cuckoldry here is staggering.

Why does it have to be equal?

Yes that's what socialist think. Muh exploitation of labor

okay, then if we stop spending so much then we can't have a service based economy

Remove the federal reserve, problem fixed.

It's a real possibility.

>I have literally no idea what productivity means in this context

one that you will never take up because the opportunities offered to you in your terrible unequal society are far greater than the equal utopia offered in venezuela and cuba

>that's not a bad thing though

It's made artificially higher than it should be though, so it is a bad thing

Because I can.
I've earned everything I have, good or bad, including my opinions.
Further, you are not the only person with freedom of speech and expression, nor do you hold a patent on truth or reality; certainly not because your opinions are currently fashionable.

>Most Americans live far beyond their means. The vast majority of us have motor vehicles, expensive cell phones, eat expensive food, and have our houses furnished with a plethora of amenities. It's not that we don't make enough money because the evil job creators are taking it all; we simply as individuals spend a little too much.


>american poor
>protesting at occupy rallies with iphones

Is this real?

If you really thing this is a problem, then quit importing tons of illegal spics. Companies pay them way less for a job that they'd pay a decent wage to a citizen for. Yet, tons of the colored complain about how low wages are.

You don't need authoritarians to redistribute wealth enmasse in order to fight income equality. Only Bernie Bolskheviks are suggesting such a thing, which is why they lost.

>then quit importing tons of illegal spics


>dems get votes from them
>repubs get the backing of business that employs them

not happening

Strawman and a false dichotomy rolled into one. Almost impressive if it wasn't such a lackluster intellectual display.

Also need to remember that almost all McDonald's are owned by franchisees who would probably struggle to pay $15/hr wages