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Only on this board is this seen as a "bad" thing. More people are earning $250k? Oh the horror. We must put a stop to this before the poor seem even more poor!
Help me with the math here Mr. Anesthesia. If only 2% of our population earns over $250K, how does that equate to 1 in 5 or 20%?
You wouldn't give a 2% inspired concentration of Forane and document it as a 20% concentration, would you?
Old money contributed more of it to society.
New money isn't doing that.
I don't know what you mean by "contributed", but I am not focusing on those names to focus on those people. I focused on those names because it captures a time in American economic history of great inequality, and what followed.
No economic system works to provide equality or opportunity. Look, in fact what you see in America is huge amounts of wealth accumulation at the top we know their names today
Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockefeller, Mellon, Morgan, Carnegie, you know the Gilded age. And that age produced huge inequality, huge worker abuses.
We can not get so enamored of an economic system that we forget people.
What capitalism unchecked always does is produce tremendous amounts of wealth for very few people. Every where capitalism is tried that is what occurs.
The US government and businesses, and citizens modified and regulated capitalism to counteract the tendency of capitalism to produce staggering amounts of inequality.
The few accumulating wealth is not a problem. In the past capitalism has provided wealth for the majority of the population, but that has changed.
Jefferson knew the dangers of unregulated banking:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
This is exactly what has happened. The unregulated banking and the corporations which grew up around them sucked the wealth out of the pockets of the regular people. He called the banks 'swindlers' because they always found a way to make money off of others.
I don't know what you mean by "contributed", but I am not focusing on those names to focus on those people. I focused on those names because it captures a time in American economic history of great inequality, and what followed.
Then maybe you should read up on how old money contributed to society compared to today's new money.
What capitalism unchecked always does is produce tremendous amounts of wealth for very few people. Every where capitalism is tried that is what occurs.
Psssstttt…I'm pretty sure that's what they want…..
Help me with the math here Mr. Anesthesia. If only 2% of our population earns over $250K, how does that equate to 1 in 5 or 20%?
You wouldn't give a 2% inspired concentration of Forane and document it as a 20% concentration, would you?
What a strange question for me. I neither wrote the article, or posted it in this thread. Wouldn't that be a better question for either of those two people?
But if I had to guess, I would say that the author is claiming that 20% will at some time in their lives, make the equivalent of $250k, while the 2% is the percentage earning it for a given year. That 20% still seems high, but, whatever.
BTW, I couldn't purposely give 20% Isoflurane even if I wanted to, at least not with any accuracy. Other than having abandoned Isoflurane at least 5 years ago at my facility, if memory serves, the vaporizer doesn't even come close to that level of output under normal operating conditions.
Last edited by AnesthesiaMD; 12-12-2013 at 09:19 PM..
Explain to us this exploitation you think is taking place. Thanks.
The exploitation is the entire corporate hierarchy system model. Based in control and debt. Behind a veil lacking in transparency and personal accountability.
Where have you been? Do you not see how the banks and govt are transferring wealth? The truly wealthy, even admit it. It is designed to funnel wealth.
There are discussions all over. LOL. Have We Reached Peak Federal Reserve?
As long as they hoard the wealth and hog things like healthcare (a human right) for themselves then America will not be voting on their side.
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