They say everything looks good when you are young. I've been challenged here for thinking that the '50s and '60s were the good times. This was recently posted by my financial advisor.
https://tspsmartinvestor.com/2020/09/16/rand-report-on-inequality/
Since he is quoting a RAND report, I'll reproduce one chart.
Two high risk strategies
1] The Russia!! Gamble
I've said all I am going to say about that one
Take a look at this chart.
The changes in this country regarding income inequality since 1980 are a direct consequence of the policies, acts, bills, and other actions created and taken, or not taken, by our representative government during the 1980 to present time period and some years prior.
Why fight?
It’s tiring worrying about politics.
Like most people my days are busy. Filled with work and family. Each day I spend hours working with the most vulnerable victims of systemic income inequality and social injustice. The non-profit I have the privilege of working for assists people experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty. It’s rewarding and necessary, though at times tiring and discouraging.
With all the Brexit mania very few folks seems to actually get the real story and that story is Income Inequality. That is at the core of Brexit and the problems in the USA as well. Until this is fixed, there is absolutely zero chance of survival long term.
Cross-posted from GoS.
Mainstream thinking, not just Republican thinking, is consistently wrong. Justification and support for the Iraq War? WRONG. Catastrophically wrong. Multi-generational even. Centennial even. An amazingly catastrophic mass lapse of establishment "reason" indeed.
Cross-posted from GOS.
Widely distributed income and wealth and the power and influence they confer within the public sphere are VITAL to democracy and justice. Real democracy and justice will not, cannot exist when income, wealth and power are highly concentrated.
