Economic Inequality Promotes Self-Aggrandizement

It has also been shown that a person’s own view of their status in life (financially, socially, etc…) based on those that they are in closer proximity to on a daily basis.  Basically if I’m the richest and most popular guy in the poorest neighborhood around, I’m going to be generally more satisfied with my overall life than the poorest and most hated person in a much better off community and socioeconomic situation, even if I’m vastly worse off than that person.  Seems to me like if a vast majority of people have frequent experiences dealing with or seeing people they view are in a higher socioeconomic class (such as the constant barrage of rich celebrities and having to deal with bosses that make such a greater amount of money and have much more privileges in life) they are almost forced to rationalize their own abilities/status in order to save face in a world they feel has been treated them unfairly and unequally, much like the “big rich stud in a crappy community” is able to look down on others and feel good about himself where the “well-off but  not compared to his neighbors and friends” person thinks he is a bum.

Spot on assessment.

Spot on assessment.

Talks too much and still dont means nothing.

Man i love that this is getting around, great documentary

there is literally the wrong side of the fence

 Again, I repeat:Karl Marx had it almost right. At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot keep on shifting income from labor to capital without having an excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand. That’s what has happened. We thought that markets worked. They’re not working. The individual can be rational. The firm, to survive and thrive, can push labor costs more and more down, but labor costs are someone else’s income and consumption. That’s why it’s a self-destructive process. But for the Socialists in Canada, who take taxes from both labor and corporation, and distribute this wealth in equal fashion to the people in forms such as free medical care, free schooling, subsidized post-secondary schooling, massive power plants of Solar, Hydro, Wind or even of nuclear nature, roadways for all to use, Good government, good policing of the system. Low rental housing, treatment for the mentally ill in place of mindless imprisonment. In Northern climates this system seems to work very well, and make for a really progressive society that grows at a rate that is sustainable – Birth control centers provide advice, services so women can choose, men can so get vasectomies, families can be limited to practical sustainable sizes. Even legal holidays are declared, minimum wages enforced, labor laws for health and safeties sake are enforced, hospitals are built , and all are given access, not just the richer folk. Corporations recognizing the higher productivity from healthy happy well educated people invest in this system, expect to pay taxes but still receive fair margin for their Capital, in production returned. The  “Great American Corporate and Capitalist Propaganda Whore’s” and their “Sales pitch bull Shiite” will cwertainly osfucate, fudge, waffle, fiddle even appeal to patriotic duties and other highly skilled manipulators to keep the vat American Army of workers at full load, but the truth is, theyr are being screwed good! Time now, to wake up, pay your national debt sown, restore the world’s faith in you and your dollar, and realize your real adversary os not China, isnot Asia but is “progress”.