One of the worst things about extreme income inequality is how many people don’t see enough of other people’s circumstances. It’s too easy to dissociate from the reality of someone else’s life if you never see them and never know them. Empathy decreases and numbness takes over.

Jan 16, 2021 · 1:18 AM UTC

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Your lack of skills in the capitalist marketplace will make you no less useless in a Marxist regime.
We are impliedly talking about “well-off people” not seeing “poor people”. The normality of that frame of thought is ..? I know a “middle class person” who, when “confronted by a beggar” panics and gives the “beggar” a large donation let’s say $20. Then forgets it quickly.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Those that live in ivory towers have no idea what the everyday people have to struggle with. What makes me so sad, is the same people that struggles are the most honest and decent people in this country.
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Which is the importance of calling out the ones protecting the establishment. If you are going to stay in the game you have to choose what you’re for. The truth or the excuses. You allow far too many excuses for the establishment. Stop. Don’t comp your values.
Replying to @marwilliamson
If you grew up poor and busted your ass to make a good life for yourself it makes it hard to see people sit around and ask for handouts. Not all white people have money It might be a good policy for rich people to do some service for the poor before they get their tax breaks
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Yes. Bubbles need bursted. If you don't understand being limited to choosing between paying for shoes for your kid & making a payment on utilities, then you don't even begin to understand poverty.
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As long as that remains true, politicians can run on it. Not much an incentive to fix it if you ask me. Taps right into that envy deep in the primative part of the brain. Mid To lower class people live better than kings 100 years ago. Yet people are less happy today. Why is that?
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Still, in my opinion, America's most significant problem.