All opinions and topics are welcomed and respected. Though we tend to hold non-mainstream views and seek to explore deeper past the simplified headlines. This blog is a collection of email conversations I have had with 30 other people, with names removed. Please realize that a few postings are intended to be inflammatory or comedic, but not as personal attacks on anyone (who doesn't deserve it). :)
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Recent perspectives on income and the wealth gap
Bill Maher: the super rich have an oversized egotistical victim complex. Libertarians and conservatives can cut the crap, because most of the founding fathers commented that concentrated wealth is a danger to democracy (and back then the existence of a billionaire capitalist was less plausible than the Fountain of Youth).
A caller on KQED: debating the minimum wage is a straw man until America implements more humane labor practices and expectations. Otherwise we're not much different than Tsarist Russia.
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