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That is one of the most tedious, childishly written and meaningless stories I have ever read and especially dull in how it relates to income inequality and the causes of it in the real world.
That is one of the most tedious, childishly written and meaningless stories I have ever read and especially dull in how it relates to income inequality and the causes of it in the real world.
A simple bedtime story that depicts what happens when there are people willing to earn their keep and others expecting others to take care of them.
A simple bedtime story that depicts what happens when there are people willing to earn their keep and others expecting others to take care of them.
Ironic, considering children are the greatest leeches of them all. I say we kick them out at 5 and let them figure out how to survive and contribute to The Great Market Economy.
If Zarg had any compassion he would have voluntarily shared his apples with Og.
As I understand it Zarg did share his apples with Og the one day he was sick but then kept showing up day after day demanding more when he was perfectly healthy.
That is one of the most tedious, childishly written and meaningless stories I have ever read and especially dull in how it relates to income inequality and the causes of it in the real world.
And you know the causes of income inequality in the real world? Nobel prize winning economists disagree and the CBO says it doesn't know why, but somehow you have all the answers?
Income disparity: it all started about one-zillion B.C. when caveman Zarg gathered more apples than caveman Og. Now, it so happened that Chief Obamarg thought it was unfair and insisted Zarg give some apples to Og so everything would be equal. In fact, he went so far as to say, "You didn't gather those," even though it was quite obvious he did. However, Zarg (I know, I know... the world’s first fascist) raised his club (in spite of club-control) and chased Obamarg out of town… well actually, out of cave, and then took his apples home. Now, before you judge Zarg too harshly, consider this. Had Obamarg implemented his policy, no one in Dinosaur Valley would have gathered any apples the next day, thinking that they would all get free handouts in the name of equality. The result would have been no apples for anyone (well, at least that’s equal) and everyone would have starved to death and the human race would have gone extinct. Hardly a great society. But instead, everyone worked harder to gather, knowing that if they didn't, sad but true, they'd die and become saber-tooth tiger fodder. Ergo, you're alive today because of Zarg's rebellion.
Now in spite of this, some guy named Lenin tried it again anyway a Zillion years later. The result was a despotic government with no freedom and low standards of living. It fact, the standards were soooo low that people risked life and limb (and often died) trying to escape such a ‘paradise’ by crossing an ‘Iron Curtain.’ And after about 70 years of this regime, the leaders of this wonderful ‘share-and-share-alike’ civilization said “Fvck it! We’ll go capitalistic again. This commie shyt ain’t working.” And so they finally tore down that wall! Now you’d think by now that humanity would have learned its lesson. Guess again!
All you have to do is open up a second grade math book. It’s quite obvious, ‘you get nothing FROM nothing!’
The End
G’nite, kiddies!
Not really.
No one says that income equality is the goal or that inequality is bad. The point you miss is that the income inequality in this nation has exploded over the past generation. It is orders of magnitude bigger than it was in my parents' time. And that's really not healthy for this nation. Income equality is bad...too much income inequality also points to serious problems, such as a hollowed out middle class with declining purchasing power.
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