If the top 80% had to give up all assets/ownership to be equal to bottom20%,would you?

[theKed]

118. Bad strawman is bad.

The "1%/99%ers" don't share that point...hell, I'm sure they don't all share the same point. But, my personal view of the scenario is that the goal is not to make everybody equally poor - with wealth equal to the lowest 20% - but to make everybody equally rich. If you took all the fabulous wealth of America (including that squirrelled away in offshore secret accounts) and distributed it equally to all 300-odd million Americans, that is closer to how it should be.

There is more than enough wealth that, if evenly distributed amongst the population of the world, everyone could live comfortable, financially stable lives. Hell, if it was limited to just America, they would be more than just comfortable. The notion that all we want is to burn down the rich and make everyone equally impoverished is bullshit and, well, right wing idiocy. Hell..."nothing changes in reality without the 1% in the nation" is one of the more nauseating things to be seen here in a while. By and large, those 1% are parasites, contributing little and sucking the remaining 99% dry.

And if you think that doesn't solve any problems in the world, you're fucking blind. Or wilfully ignorant.

PS - a 1 bedroom ramshackle house and a 5 bedroom estate, if in the same place, are worth the same? Size may not equate to "happiness" but it sure as shit can equate to comfort and quality of life.