I don’t agree with either side when it abuses the system. The banks that were bailed out in 08/09 were part of the reason credit froze. Cmon man. Instead of prison some were handed hefty bonuses several years later lol. Talk about raping the system.
41 billionaires are now as rich as the poorest half of the world population
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I don’t agree with either side when it abuses the system. The banks that were bailed out in 08/09 were part of the reason credit froze. Cmon man. Instead of prison some were handed hefty bonuses several years later lol. Talk about raping the system.
What is the 'system'? People should work hard so that their money to be taken from them by the govt? So why not just work for the govt directly like they do it in socialist countries? Mandatory cheap labor and no parasites. I believe the optimal solution lies in taxes going down over time not up.
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The dude revolutionized the entire world of computing but he is equal to the factory worker in terms of value. And basically a peon compared to your contributions to mankind. Cool, gotta love the negative opinion from the peanut gallery.
Elon Musk risked it all of his own fortunes to found 3 very successful revolutionary America based companies. He is worth every penny of his lifetime earnings.
He is NOT the original founder of Tesla. Many people think he is. He is not. He made an investment in the company and eventually became ceo.
That is not what I believe or stand for. What I believe is that a healthy society is one where a maximum of citizens is empowered and provided with equal opportunities. And as part of that a society should provide some basic protections such as mandatory quality health care, compulsory quality education, utilities that are run and operated by a government or public entity. Public transportation (where feasible), and decent infrastructure.
All the above has NOTHING to do with a socialist or communist society but a modern, healthy, and empowering one. When there is a functioning framework that one can operate in then one is motivated to work hard, do well, and strive.
The current system in the US leaves very little room for errors. One wrong word and most employers can terminate you. Job protections are virtually non existent. Get sick? Pray for healing or somehow to find a benefactor to support the horrendous charges even with health insurance. Commit a minor crime and happen to be of certain ethnicity? Good luck, you may end up locked away for a very long time. So, where are the opportunities to pursue happiness nowadays, just as the constitution speaks of? It's there, but one has to be extremely lucky and watchful to not fall off the left or right of the incredibly narrow edge. Unless one makes it into the "special" group of the rich and wealthy, life rather resembles a lottery and gamble than a path that is promised for the hardworking, honest, and diligent.
How does life look for the rich and wealthy? Well, class medicine assures you that you get the treatment of your choice, money buys anything. That doctor and that hospital are only available to you, not that guy at the other end of town. You can't get fired because you do all the firing, anyone who stands in the way of pure profit maximization will get axed. The term stakeholders does not exist to you, there are only shareholders and you are one of the biggest beneficiaries. Workers are garbage and losers that you have the privilege of abusing. They can be hired and fired at your pleasure, regardless of whether they have families to feed or not. You have no responsibility for their lives after all. Your kids go to the best private schools so they don't need to be exposed to the black and ethnic trash and the lazy. Teachers and education can be bought for money. They are available for your kids not to the kids of the guy across town. Ironically, education can even be bought if your kids are too stupid to obtain passing grades. You can comfortably cross the red line and commit crimes at work, home, neighborhood because you know that the law does not really apply to you, only to the stooges below you. If you get charged the lawyers you have on retainer will easily bail you out. If that does not work you make some phone calls to your country club buddies who happen to know someone who knows someone.
I could go on for hours but you hopefully get the point. There are two worlds in the US, one that is for the few privileged, and it does not matter how you got into the group, inheritance, crime, cheating, honest hard work. Once you are in you are in. The other world is for all the rest who are actually of identical DNA but were not as fortunate to be born into the same wealthy family, who were caught robbing the bank while the neighbor got away with it and joined the rich club. Or the ones whose family member happened to get sick.
See, the problem with an exclusive focus on money is that it does not only reward those who are ethical and moral upright and hard working. It rewards anyone who grabs it, regardless of whether it was rightfully earned or not. And the system subsequently defines those with money winners and without money losers. Justice defines a winner as someone who strives to do the right thing, and a loser as someone who mistreats others, steals, and wrongfully enriches oneself. Money draws the line in a way that dissects society in a very unfair, unethical, and morally wrong way.
So what can be done? For starters, stop making money the only determinant of success and happiness in life. It is simply not true. Success is earned and deserved in exchange for hard work and smart work. Then, job security and labor laws that are worth the ink, used, universal and equal heath care, equal and universal education, equal infrastructure whether you are east or south of town. Equal treatment before the law.
If we strive to provide the same opportunities for everyone then NOBODY will ever demand equal outcomes because everyone will have the assurance that they have fair chances to get somewhere.
All the above has NOTHING to do with a socialist or communist society but a modern, healthy, and empowering one. When there is a functioning framework that one can operate in then one is motivated to work hard, do well, and strive.
The current system in the US leaves very little room for errors. One wrong word and most employers can terminate you. Job protections are virtually non existent. Get sick? Pray for healing or somehow to find a benefactor to support the horrendous charges even with health insurance. Commit a minor crime and happen to be of certain ethnicity? Good luck, you may end up locked away for a very long time. So, where are the opportunities to pursue happiness nowadays, just as the constitution speaks of? It's there, but one has to be extremely lucky and watchful to not fall off the left or right of the incredibly narrow edge. Unless one makes it into the "special" group of the rich and wealthy, life rather resembles a lottery and gamble than a path that is promised for the hardworking, honest, and diligent.
How does life look for the rich and wealthy? Well, class medicine assures you that you get the treatment of your choice, money buys anything. That doctor and that hospital are only available to you, not that guy at the other end of town. You can't get fired because you do all the firing, anyone who stands in the way of pure profit maximization will get axed. The term stakeholders does not exist to you, there are only shareholders and you are one of the biggest beneficiaries. Workers are garbage and losers that you have the privilege of abusing. They can be hired and fired at your pleasure, regardless of whether they have families to feed or not. You have no responsibility for their lives after all. Your kids go to the best private schools so they don't need to be exposed to the black and ethnic trash and the lazy. Teachers and education can be bought for money. They are available for your kids not to the kids of the guy across town. Ironically, education can even be bought if your kids are too stupid to obtain passing grades. You can comfortably cross the red line and commit crimes at work, home, neighborhood because you know that the law does not really apply to you, only to the stooges below you. If you get charged the lawyers you have on retainer will easily bail you out. If that does not work you make some phone calls to your country club buddies who happen to know someone who knows someone.
I could go on for hours but you hopefully get the point. There are two worlds in the US, one that is for the few privileged, and it does not matter how you got into the group, inheritance, crime, cheating, honest hard work. Once you are in you are in. The other world is for all the rest who are actually of identical DNA but were not as fortunate to be born into the same wealthy family, who were caught robbing the bank while the neighbor got away with it and joined the rich club. Or the ones whose family member happened to get sick.
See, the problem with an exclusive focus on money is that it does not only reward those who are ethical and moral upright and hard working. It rewards anyone who grabs it, regardless of whether it was rightfully earned or not. And the system subsequently defines those with money winners and without money losers. Justice defines a winner as someone who strives to do the right thing, and a loser as someone who mistreats others, steals, and wrongfully enriches oneself. Money draws the line in a way that dissects society in a very unfair, unethical, and morally wrong way.
So what can be done? For starters, stop making money the only determinant of success and happiness in life. It is simply not true. Success is earned and deserved in exchange for hard work and smart work. Then, job security and labor laws that are worth the ink, used, universal and equal heath care, equal and universal education, equal infrastructure whether you are east or south of town. Equal treatment before the law.
If we strive to provide the same opportunities for everyone then NOBODY will ever demand equal outcomes because everyone will have the assurance that they have fair chances to get somewhere.
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He was the one who brought Tesla to the mainstream consumer market. As far as I know he was actively involved in companys daily operations and technical discussions and risked his own capital with no guarantee of success. There are not that many like him.
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Very true. That's how this show works, stomp on the guy below you while sucking the xxx of the guy above you. Corporations are not held accountable in America. The small guy who smokes weed gets jailed, the corporation who sold trash financial products to people and over-leveraged itself gets bailed out and rewarded for bad behavior to the tune of tens of billions.
Who has provided opportunities for the most successful ones among us? I don't mind the govt 'providing opportunities' for the rest using it's own earned money. Individuals should 'provide opportunities' to others through charities not constantly rising taxes. Taxes should serve as a seed capital to the govt. After that it's up to the govt to manage this money smartly.
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You are missing the point. A system that provided equal opportunities and equal punishment would not be a system that had nearly as many billionaires as the US has. Look at Elon's gay buddy, Peter Thiel. He was outed to be gay. Someone simply spoke the truth, not a crime. What did Thiel do? He used his wealth to systematically destroy an entire company that employed people, the company run by the guy who outed him. Thiel should have gone to prison for that. Thiel and Musk should have also been held accountable for the abuses and schemes they ran in PayPal. But no, that system and its justice system is designed to only catch the small fry.
Close ALL THE LOOPHOLES for the rich immediately and regulate and punish corporate behavior and wrongdoing. We don't need higher taxes I agree with you, we need to apply the law and punishment for wrongdoing EQUALLY.
Close ALL THE LOOPHOLES for the rich immediately and regulate and punish corporate behavior and wrongdoing. We don't need higher taxes I agree with you, we need to apply the law and punishment for wrongdoing EQUALLY.