Battletard wrote:
I saw this video when it first came out...my reaction is the same now as it was then.
Basically...yes, we need to stop the gap from widening. We need to balance out the middle and lower classes, because they keep lagging behind and it's going to kill the economy (it already has been).
However, the problem with these kinds of videos and generally "1%" complaints is that there's a fine line between the politics of equality, and simple jealousy. For every intelligent person who can debate economic distribution, there is an idiot who just complains that a CEO makes over a million a year, while he has student loan debt and works at Chilis.
What is the argument? The rich have too much? Okay. How much should the "fair share" be, then? How much exactly is it "fair" to tax these rich people? How much money would someone need to have (or not have) before it's "fair"?
Livable wages? Sure, everyone should be able to earn those.
But should everyone be able to have enough to buy a new car? Should everyone have enough to be able to buy a nice house in the suburbs? Where do you draw the line for "fair"? When does someone earn "too much" money? How can you set a limit there?
I just think too many people take economic inequality to cry foul and say "it's not fair that so and so has X much money" when that's really not looking at the issue in the right way.....it's also the attitude that makes republicans get angry because it comes across as entitled and whiney.
I'd prefer we look at our tax systems, our financial regulatory systems, our educational systems, etc. -- all things that contribute to the widening economic gap. It's not a simple thing as saying "rich people have way too much money, they should have less"
inb4 everyone misreads what I've written and claims I'm defending the economic gap and the excesses of Wall Street.