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Originally Posted by Hurricane

OMG income inequality actually exists??? I am shocked, and upset beyond imagination. Here I was thinking everyone made the exact same salary as me. Well, you know what they say, fool me once...

Sits there and tries to make him look like an idiot?? Sign boy did it all on his own. The interviewer just confirmed his suspicion that the guy was an idiot. He didn't have to be, he just was. As are 95% of the other people camping on Wall Street (I am giving them a lot of credit at 5%)

Whats your point about companies keeping money offshore? All that does is put most of them on a level playing field with other industrialized nations.

So yes, they still pay the same tax or more than other companies around the world. They are not doing anything illegally.

Also...income inequality must exist. It has, does, and will continue to exist for the rest of eternity. How can you say that gives them a right to protest?

Where did all those hippy idiots get their fancy fixed gear bikes? ipods? clothes? I am sure its all grown on the soil they turned themselves around the outside of their hand built adobe mud huts right?

In fact, their lives are so comfortable and nice because of that jump in income inequality. Companies like Coke, Microsoft, Apple, Google etc. kept the USA from following the same path as the mighty USSR, and made a lot of people millionaires in the process as well.



From your unsolicited homework; thanks teach.

I bet 100% of fortune 500 CEOs think income distribution should be more equal. That means 99% of people need to work harder, learn more, and become better at life and business. Not that it should be handed out like pez to every granola wearing Birkenstocks and a unkempt flavor saver.

All these self entitled homeless lookalikes, need to get jobs, and stfu.

How can they even afford to just hang out for weeks on the street? Half of them probably have wealthy parents who aren't willing to offer them 10 cents for their sh!t idea to sell hemp jewelry creations on the boardwalk. But they get enough support to comfortably spend their life complaining they don't get enough.

The beauty of living in a wealthy country with lots of successful businesses I guess.

Everyone keeps talking at a micro level(this guy, that guy-FUCK-this one has an ipod! Get him) when you need to look at a MACRO level.

The anger in the discussion of income inequality is not the fact that you make more than your neighbor. It's the systemic push where the top 1% has MORE to share among themselves than the EVER have before.

This has happened since the 70's. And what happened to make the change?

Well, for starters, the Nixon shock changed the game. Then they started with the trickle down economics.

GOING TO MAKE THIS BOLD HERE: EVERY STATISTIC HAS SHOWN ITS NOT FUCKING TRICKLING.

It's not about counting how many protesters have a fucking ipod, and its not about the fringe that want communism.

The majority---MAJORITY want to play in a fair system. Yeah, you work hard, you get ahead. That's great-they just want a straight line. Right now, the line on the curve is bent towards the top(in an exponential fashion) where the hard work is so front loaded for the poor that they stop.