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This is what makes me think that conservative canards aren't grassroots organic ideas. I heard Penn from Penn and Teller, that libertarian shill make the argument that people in the US can't complain because we are the one percent in the world.
Its a silly argument. Being in the top one percent in a world where the majority makes a dollar a day doesn't change the fact that we are still getting the raw side of the deal in terms of national income inequality.
Being in the lowest quadrant in the US still sucks.
Which is exactly why a lot of people work hard to get out of the bottom 25%.
The only mental gymnastics are yours, as you desperately attempt to re-write reality to fit your absurd and totally irrational and unworkable extremist ideology.
Being progressive is extremist now? How far right has discourse in this country gone too where people literally believe that no capitalist countries are poor? Even true believer communists aren't THAT delusional about North Korea.
That's a very difficult question to answer. It depends on a lot. Can the US sustain it's standard of living while losing manufacturing jobs? Not unless we create a new product every couple years that the world demands.
But at the same time, as China wages increase, it doesn't necessarily mean their standard of living will. China has no EPA, corruption runs rampant, their media is highly propagandized. There will eventually be another major shift of wealth from west to east, I'd say in the next century, but anything more specific is a wild guess. There's no telling what the political and economic climates will be, nor what events will happen to shape them.
I have a good feeling that China either sooner or later will have major civil disturbances. The angst from the inequality, one party rule, and corruption will spur political change.
congratulations. I've heard this idiotic argument too many times. You however don't live in the rest of the world, you live and work in the united states. Lets deal with that reality shall we? We're not world citizens. Once a one world government comes about we can get one currency and do what we can about worldwide inequality. Until then lets focus on our own country.
Good post. But he won't take it even if its sources. Best to try the CIA world fact book.
The guy seems like a dummy troll though
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