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Originally Posted by Mikado
If you're worried about not making ends meat, put yourself in a situation to improve your income. Do what it takes to support your family. The greatest part about this nation is that everyone has the opportunity to make a better life for themsevles.
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I'm so tired of that arguement. That may hold weight with individual people, but when you look at society as a whole, it makes no sense whatsoever. We are always going to have a class of people that have to do take the low paying jobs and there are only so many high-paying jobs available. It's not as if the entire bottom 50% could go to college and wind up getting 50k/yr jobs. Even if it happened there'd be no people left to bag our gorceries, work cashiering jobs, construction, etc. Those same people need to be able to support a family or else our population would shrink. Either the people at the top need to pay MUCH MUCH higher wages to those people or they have to supplement their tax burden. It's the only way to build for the future.
Most of the top 1% are there because they have worker bees working for slave wages.