[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unionizing allows labor to capture a greater share of wealth through wages and helps achieve a living wage rather than slavery.

Providing healthcare, education, infrastructure, and benefits for military service increases the chance that somebody born into a poor or broken family can be a productive member of society.

Small business owners and successful professionals who make $300k-$500k aren't the problem and reasonable people aren't talking about them when they whine about inequality. It's the people who have gamed the system so extensively that they have captured a truly outlandish amount of wealth.

And it's not about taking away what they have, but fine-tuning many factors that made such a disproportionate accumulation of wealth possible in the first place. Much of it was built on tax fraud, outsourcing, labor exploitation, government corruption, exploiting globalization, and inheritance. If these things are fixed, within a few generations it will even out. We've been through this before with the Gilded Age.

Welp, I agree with pretty much all of this. Does this mean I have to get baptized now? Not sure I am ready to take that step... ^^