Why's the progressive left so obsessed with what the Joneses have? Why are they so materialistic?

[Ellis Bell]

Originally Posted by 2e1m5a

Didn't you just make a thread about the global elite?

When most people talk about disliking huge amounts of wealth concentrated in the hands of a few-that is who they are talking about. Nobody else. It is not the Doctor or Engineer earning $500,000 or even $5M.

You are taking attention away from the global elite and therefore doing them a service by going along with the media narrative and thinking people are split in two different camps of thought-fiercely opposite to one another. We are not.

Most people are against the global cabal of business interests that have infiltrated Governments and are destroying countries around the globe. The owners of The Federal Reserve and Bank of England and their "too big to fail" banks.

Don't EVER make the dangerous assumption that any Puppet...er...Politician speaks for anybody in this country. They do not.

Don't think for a second that any talking head speaks for anybody-right or left-in this country. They do not.

If the Politicians are not speaking for the people in this country, then how did they get voted into their position of representative of the people?

Just asking ....

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by mm4

Whenever you call a leftist on her greed, the first response is always, "Look at so and so. So and so has more."

Does the left understand that most people in this world have to share housing? That most of the world doesn't get all this stuff that progressives crave (and if it doesn't, perpetually squeals about 'equality')? All the serial graduate degrees they want, from name brand universities? All the backpacking side trips to Nepal?

Does the left think that everybody in the world has the luxury of picking and choosing their vocations and crafts so that they're not beneath them?

I'm a tad amused at the irony here.

As a poor person sharing housing, in my experience, my housing situation has been largely a function of how much other people have.

Rents are determined by how much other people have, not by how much I have.

So yeah, if other people have more, I have to pay more for housing. In that context, how much other people have is relevant to me, and a cause for concern.

D'OH!

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by shooting4life

Let me know your solution that doesn't requiring stealing of money from the succefull to give to the unsuccessful.

You cannot divide your way to prosperity.

Yes you can, if you divide property and not people.

Tiny houses will allow low-wage workers to build wealth for themselves instead of for their landlords.