So poverty will disappear in how many years?
Might as well ask how long people will make bad decisions.
And those who for whatever reason fail to be enabled ...what of them?
Doesn't sound like you understand what negative behavior enabling is.
But please dont think I have any answers other than distribute wealth such that the gap between rich and poor is not so hideously wide.
A poor person can't get a break with a minimum wage yet company execs and high government officials award themselves pay rises in excess of the annual wage of a poor worker...there's your problem.
That's just class warfare.
Words in a row like that don't confuse me as they seem to confuse you.
Idiosyncratic term that conflates personal choices with the well-defined cost of living.
Not a minimum cost of living. It wouldn't make any sense at all to calculate a minimum cost of living like that.
Idiosyncratic nonsense.
But not vice versa, which is what appears to be your confusion.
You didn't quote, "Authoritarianism allows limited freedom, but fascism is extreme."
"Not allowing voluntary action" is extreme.
But go ahead and continue your irrelevant pedantry. Looks like you're having fun.
That would cost the poor more, also. They'd probably never dig out again.
The poor don't invest millions. Little thing called reality. Look into it.
Yep. If the wealthy win this class war, the consequences will include the degradation of my country, community, family, and surrounding landscape. That would be bad, imho.
Yep, you sound pretty worked up over class warfare. Doom and gloom.
I was amused at the thought of renting instead of buying a house being a choice, for example, for someone earning minimum wage.
Again, where was minimum wage ever meant to buy a house?
None of that measures health care. By outcome - lifespan after diagnosis - The US has the worst health care system in the First World, and measured by efficiency - bang for the buck - maybe the worst on the planet. Everyone else with worse outcome stats at least doesn't waste so much money.
"new treatments are more readily accessible"
"one of the highest 5-year survival rates for breast cancer and colon cancer"
"wait time for specialist appointment or elective surgery is among the lowest of all OECD countries"
Whether submission is due to ideological indoctrination, logical appeal to reason, or threat of punishment, it all still amounts to a conditioned response fostered by one’s society. Our behaviors are largely governed by our environments, and for most of us that equates to our societies.
So you think voluntary and conditioned are mutually exclusive?
Any conditioning removes all possibility of voluntary action?
That is exactly right. And the next day they will reassess and invest their remaining millions somewhere else.
Compare that to a retired couple who are (barely) living off their 401K. They might only lose $100,000. They will, most likely, not recover from that, and will die in poverty.
There is a difference in outcomes there.
People move out of the 1% all the time, so it seems some are substantially affected.
Some 11% of Americans will join the Top 1% for at least one year during their prime working lives (age 25 to 60), according to research done by Thomas Hirschl, a sociology professor at Cornell University. But only 5.8% will be in it for two years or more.
As for holding onto this status for at least 10 years? Only a miniscule 1.1% of Americans are this fortunate.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/07/news/economy/top-1/index.html
And if anyone already retired still has high-risk investments they can't afford to lose, it's a bad decision not to move those to low-risk ones.
Bad choices are those we cannot afford to make, and they are different for different people.
Everyone in the US has a "pony" in the "race" between rich and poor. And if the result of that race is that the rich win, and the gap widens so far that they always win and there is no way to cross the gap - then everyone loses in the long term. There are no good outcomes from a permanent two class society.
Is "everyone keep what they earn" a pony?
The middle class is shrinking because more of them have gotten richer. And that's true for the lower middle and poor as well.
Good example. So we should be spending far more money on education, vocational schools, two year colleges etc to teach those people to fish.
No, we spend far too much on education because government loans have tipped the scale. More of that for people who may not be good with finances will only further sink them in crushing debt. And handouts are enabling.
There should be taxes incentives for vocational/business partnerships, since that's the best return on investment.
Circumstance isn't a bad choice; it's bad luck.
Tell iceaura that: "I think he overlooked the major and most common bad choice: getting born to the wrong parents."
