Trickle Down

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

This jives with the crap-storm of stats in Piketty's Capital. The book is worth a perusal.

Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Pfft, next you will tell us to buy into the global warming hoax.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I feel the glass cracking.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

You didn't really want that wine anyway. Besides, you wouldn't really get the same enjoyment from it as someone who knows about wine.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Pareto!

[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

Why do you believe that if someone has something you are also entitled to it?

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

It's more that we feel that it's wrong for a small group to go around taking everything that's not nailed down, and hording it, usually doing this by exploiting others who are doing all the "real" work. Then, when this is pointed out, the person hoarding everything thing will loudly claiming: "I DID THIS. THIS IS ALL MINE. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO MY STUFF."

Somehow they also are able to simultaneously claim that their hoarding will somehow benefit everyone else, because magic.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

It depends. Is this thing they have mine?

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Because no man is an island, the wealthy get more out of our shared society than the poor, therefore they should put more back in.