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ProSense

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Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 10:27 AM

Mar 2013

"But the ethical and moral values that got them to where they are also prevent action to fix it...So, they get depressed and paranoid."

...pure greed. The only other time the disparity was so great was prior to Great Depression. In times of great economic prosperity since that period, the rich have done extremely well, with the top one percent garnering about 9 to 12 percent of overall income (1940s to late 1970s). In recent decades, doing extremely well wasn't enough. They had to take and take until they covet more than 23 percent of overall income. It's obscene.

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Why Rich People Hate Talking About Inequality [View all] ProSense Mar 2013 OP

Kick! n/t ProSense Mar 2013 #1

they don't mind talking about it. they do it all the time. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #2

Yes, ProSense Mar 2013 #3

or kind of like how during elections they're all populist but the first thing they do when they get HiPointDem Mar 2013 #4

Yeah, ProSense Mar 2013 #6

Like a tourist in Mexico, the rich can see that inequality is a social problem. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #5

It's ProSense Mar 2013 #7

the issue is not so much how they spend their money hfojvt Mar 2013 #8

Sure ProSense Mar 2013 #9

Kick! n/t ProSense Mar 2013 #10

Keep in Mind WDIM Mar 2013 #11