Date: November 3rd, 2010 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] primitivepeople.livejournal.com
They all bought that whole musical number about the plucky kid off the streets who can, with hard work, some smarts, and just a bit of luck, make it big. They don't want to limit the rich, or the corporations, because they are still somehow convinced that it will be them someday. They really, honestly believe that the 95% of the population that holds 5% of the wealth are just lazy or they'd be rich, too.

I'm amazed at how many people buy into this simplistic crap. It may have been true once - although I dispute that, because it may never have been true - but it certainly isn't now. Social mobility has all but disappeared - the rich have worked out how to ring-fence their wealth and keep it away from the poor. "Trickle-down" is a fallacy, and it's amazing how many people fail to see that.
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