As the Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Richer

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper">Totally true. I have witnessed Cambodia from the fall of Pol Pot to today. In the 80&#039;s everyone was struggling to survive. Literally. Now you see a Lexus passing a farmer riding his cart pulled by an ox. <br /> <br /> Yeah, big income disparity, but the road is paved, the farmer has an ox now as well as a cart. And he has food and a job.<br /> <br /> In America our poor today means you have an iPhone 4 and your DVD doesn&#039;t play Blu Ray.<br /> <br /> <span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube"><span><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_Bzw8W1rS8/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J_Bzw8W1rS8"></iframe></span></span></div>

 

[Bleipriester]

<div class="bbWrapper">The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away.</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727692" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727692" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727692">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us?</div>

 

[Bleipriester]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727696" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727696" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727696">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727692" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727692" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727692">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>There might be relevant things for you. For example when Trump goes after China <u>before</u> the US industry has been relocated to the US. China in possession of large parts of the US and EU industry and their know-how means the end of the West´s advance sooner or later. West´s behavior is simply mad, whatever our leaderships do, one can only shake the head.</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727714" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727714" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727714">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727696" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727696" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727696">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727692" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727692" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727692">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>There might be relevant things for you. For example when Trump goes after China <u>before</u> the US industry has been relocated to the US. China in possession of large parts of the US and EU industry and their know-how means the end of the West´s advance sooner or later. West´s behavior is simply mad. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>The poor today are richer than any time in human history.<br /> <br /> I know that grieves you, but it&#039;s a fact.</div>

 

[rightwinger]

<div class="bbWrapper">The gap between our wealthiest and the workers is widening</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 20321" data-quote="rightwinger" data-source="post: 19727731" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727731" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727731">rightwinger said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The gap between our wealthiest and the workers is widening </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the poor are richer.</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 20321" data-quote="rightwinger" data-source="post: 19727731" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727731" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727731">rightwinger said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The gap between our wealthiest and the workers is widening </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>If you want income equality then move to Cuba where you go to prison for making a penny over $15 a day.<br /> <br /> But for some reason you lefties aren&#039;t going.</div>

 

[Bleipriester]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727723" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727723" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727723">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727714" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727714" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727714">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727696" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727696" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727696">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727692" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727692" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727692">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>There might be relevant things for you. For example when Trump goes after China <u>before</u> the US industry has been relocated to the US. China in possession of large parts of the US and EU industry and their know-how means the end of the West´s advance sooner or later. West´s behavior is simply mad. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>The poor today are richer than any time in human history.<br /> <br /> I know that grieves you, but it&#039;s a fact. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>No doubt about that but that´s not all that great. A fat belly hardly resists. Look how wealthy we could be. Automated factories could work for us, all is free. Work time two or three hours per day. But that´s nothing for you, evil communism. You prefer to work 10 fucking hours in Uncle Sam´s last steel factory like hundred years ago. Health insurance? Communism! Holiday? Communism! Worker rights? COMMUNISM!<br /> <br /> <br /> Here’s the list of the countries with the highest wealth inequality, according to the Allianz report.<br /> (100 = One guy owns all the money*)<br /> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.S.A. — 80.56</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sweden — 79.90</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.K. — 75.72</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Indonesia — 73.61</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Austria — 73.59</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Germany — 73.34</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Colombia — 73.18</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Chile — 73.17</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brazil — 72.86</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mexico — 70.00</li> </ol><br /> <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">America Is the Richest, and Most Unequal, Country</a><br /> <br /> *my adding for explanation.</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727773" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727773" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727773">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727723" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727723" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727723">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727714" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727714" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727714">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727696" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727696" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727696">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727692" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727692" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727692">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>There might be relevant things for you. For example when Trump goes after China <u>before</u> the US industry has been relocated to the US. China in possession of large parts of the US and EU industry and their know-how means the end of the West´s advance sooner or later. West´s behavior is simply mad. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>The poor today are richer than any time in human history.<br /> <br /> I know that grieves you, but it&#039;s a fact. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>No doubt about that but that´s not all that great. A fat belly hardly resists. Look how wealthy we could be. Automated factories could work for us, all is free. Work time two or three hours per day. But that´s nothing for you, evil communism. You prefer to work 10 fucking hours in Uncle Sam´s last steel factory like hundred years ago. Health insurance? Communism! Holiday? Communism! Worker rights? COMMUNISM!<br /> <br /> <br /> Here’s the list of the countries with the highest wealth inequality, according to the Allianz report.<br /> (100 = One guy owns all the money*)<br /> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.S.A. — 80.56</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sweden — 79.90</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.K. — 75.72</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Indonesia — 73.61</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Austria — 73.59</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Germany — 73.34</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Colombia — 73.18</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Chile — 73.17</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brazil — 72.86</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mexico — 70.00</li> </ol><br /> <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">America Is the Richest, and Most Unequal, Country</a><br /> <br /> *my adding for explanation. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Topic is not income equality.<br /> Topic is the poor are getting richer.</div>

 

[Bleipriester]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727810" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727810" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727810">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727773" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727773" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727773">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727723" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727723" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727723">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727714" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727714" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727714">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727696" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727696" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727696">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727692" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727692" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727692">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The poor didn´t get any richer for decades. But many goods got cheaper as they come from other countries now. Many jobs taken away. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>There might be relevant things for you. For example when Trump goes after China <u>before</u> the US industry has been relocated to the US. China in possession of large parts of the US and EU industry and their know-how means the end of the West´s advance sooner or later. West´s behavior is simply mad. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>The poor today are richer than any time in human history.<br /> <br /> I know that grieves you, but it&#039;s a fact. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>No doubt about that but that´s not all that great. A fat belly hardly resists. Look how wealthy we could be. Automated factories could work for us, all is free. Work time two or three hours per day. But that´s nothing for you, evil communism. You prefer to work 10 fucking hours in Uncle Sam´s last steel factory like hundred years ago. Health insurance? Communism! Holiday? Communism! Worker rights? COMMUNISM!<br /> <br /> <br /> Here’s the list of the countries with the highest wealth inequality, according to the Allianz report.<br /> (100 = One guy owns all the money*)<br /> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.S.A. — 80.56</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sweden — 79.90</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.K. — 75.72</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Indonesia — 73.61</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Austria — 73.59</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Germany — 73.34</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Colombia — 73.18</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Chile — 73.17</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brazil — 72.86</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mexico — 70.00</li> </ol><br /> <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">America Is the Richest, and Most Unequal, Country</a><br /> <br /> *my adding for explanation. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Topic is not income equality.<br /> Topic is the poor are getting richer.<br /> <br /> If you want income equality move to Cuba where you go to prison for making a penny over $15 a day.<br /> <br /> And yet not one of you moonbats has moved there. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Cuba is a damaged country with a strange leadership. But we can turn the tables and ask, so when you love bare naked capitalism that much, why aren´t you moving to Congo?<br /> <br /> &quot;The Democratic Republic of Congo is widely considered one of the world&#039;s richest countries in natural resources; its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US$24 trillion. The Congo has 70% of the world&#039;s coltan, a third of its cobalt, more than 30% of its diamond reserves, and a tenth of its copper.<br /> <br /> Child soldiers have been used on a large scale in DRC, and in 2011 it was estimated that 30,000 children were still operating with armed groups.<br /> <br /> Instances of child labor and forced labor have been observed and reported in the U.S. Department of Labor&#039;s <i>Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor</i> in the DRC in 2013.<br /> <br /> Through 2011 the DRC had the lowest Human Development Index of the 187 ranked countries.&quot;<br /> <br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia</a></div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727860" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727860" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727860">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727810" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727810" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727810">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727773" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727773" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727773">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727723" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727723" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727723">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 41102" data-quote="Bleipriester" data-source="post: 19727714" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727714" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727714">Bleipriester said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727696" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727696" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727696">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> And the price of tea in China? Anything else irrelivent for us? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>There might be relevant things for you. For example when Trump goes after China <u>before</u> the US industry has been relocated to the US. China in possession of large parts of the US and EU industry and their know-how means the end of the West´s advance sooner or later. West´s behavior is simply mad. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>The poor today are richer than any time in human history.<br /> <br /> I know that grieves you, but it&#039;s a fact. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>No doubt about that but that´s not all that great. A fat belly hardly resists. Look how wealthy we could be. Automated factories could work for us, all is free. Work time two or three hours per day. But that´s nothing for you, evil communism. You prefer to work 10 fucking hours in Uncle Sam´s last steel factory like hundred years ago. Health insurance? Communism! Holiday? Communism! Worker rights? COMMUNISM!<br /> <br /> <br /> Here’s the list of the countries with the highest wealth inequality, according to the Allianz report.<br /> (100 = One guy owns all the money*)<br /> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.S.A. — 80.56</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sweden — 79.90</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U.K. — 75.72</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Indonesia — 73.61</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Austria — 73.59</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Germany — 73.34</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Colombia — 73.18</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Chile — 73.17</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brazil — 72.86</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mexico — 70.00</li> </ol><br /> <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">America Is the Richest, and Most Unequal, Country</a><br /> <br /> *my adding for explanation. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Topic is not income equality.<br /> Topic is the poor are getting richer.<br /> <br /> If you want income equality move to Cuba where you go to prison for making a penny over $15 a day.<br /> <br /> And yet not one of you moonbats has moved there. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Cuba is a damaged country with a strange leadership. But we can turn the tables and ask, so when you love bare naked capitalism that much, why aren´t you moving to Congo?<br /> <br /> &quot;The Democratic Republic of Congo is widely considered one of the world&#039;s richest countries in natural resources; its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US$24 trillion. The Congo has 70% of the world&#039;s coltan, a third of its cobalt, more than 30% of its diamond reserves, and a tenth of its copper.<br /> <br /> Child soldiers have been used on a large scale in DRC, and in 2011 it was estimated that 30,000 children were still operating with armed groups.<br /> <br /> Instances of child labor and forced labor have been observed and reported in the U.S. Department of Labor&#039;s <i>Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor</i> in the DRC in 2013.<br /> <br /> Through 2011 the DRC had the lowest Human Development Index of the 187 ranked countries.&quot;<br /> <br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Because I&#039;m not interested in wealth nor dealing with one of the most corrupt governments to obtain it. I live in the US where the poorest poor are wealthy. <br /> <br /> Weather is nice in the Med. Millions vacation there.<br /> <br /> So what&#039;s keeping the left away from Cuba?</div>

 

[Bleipriester]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727888" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727888" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727888">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Because I&#039;m not interested in wealth nor dealing with one of the most corrupt governments to obtain it. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>I mean as worker! &quot;Forced labor&quot;, even children, that means they have full employment. No gun control, as you can read above! What a great capitalist place!<br /> <br /> <br /> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727888" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727888" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727888">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I live in the US where the poorest poor are wealthy. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>No they aren´t. I am the poorest German in Germany, really, believe me. But I have health insurance, a flat, pension some day, its not cold in winter in my flat. And I don´t have to suffer from angst. I even could afford a small car if I wanted. But why should my car smoke my pot, hm? I am really rich compared to a poor American. Still fucking poor (that´s not only meant materially) and the revolution against the fucking egomaniac people here must start soon or wealth will ever be a dream.<br /> <br /> <br /> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727888" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727888" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727888">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Weather is nice in the Med. Millions vacation there.<br /> <br /> So what&#039;s keeping the left away from Cuba? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>You know how they go to Internet in Cuba? They buy a pass in the store and then can connect for an hour or two to the slowest W-Lan you have ever seen. In the public. You can see the bunch hanging around in the proximity of a hot spot and swearing at the Internet cause facebook hardly works. But Cuba has even some good sides. They won´t let you down, you get food stamps. Almost like in the US but less electronic. And the flat is free in Cuba, like health.</div>

 

[rightwinger]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727738" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727738" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727738">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 20321" data-quote="rightwinger" data-source="post: 19727731" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727731" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727731">rightwinger said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The gap between our wealthiest and the workers is widening </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the poor are richer. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Actually, the poor and working class have been stagnant for 30 years while supply side policies make the wealthy richer</div>

 

[initforme]

<div class="bbWrapper">Rage against the poor. Why do the poor bother you? How immature. If you are not poor then explain why anyone cares if some poor person has a phone....unreal. if being poor is so great then why is everyone running around in the godforsaken rat race trying not to be poor?</div>

 

[Mr Natural]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727738" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727738" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727738">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 20321" data-quote="rightwinger" data-source="post: 19727731" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727731" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727731">rightwinger said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The gap between our wealthiest and the workers is widening </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the poor are richer. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> <br /> Thanks to Johnsons&#039; War on Poverty and his Great Society programs.</div>

 

[sparky]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727810" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727810" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727810">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Topic is not income equality.<br /> Topic is the poor are getting richer. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Ok, what metric would you like to establish this &#039;fact&#039; by then?<br /> <br /> ~S~</div>

 

[sparky]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 29518" data-quote="initforme" data-source="post: 19728580" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19728580" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19728580">initforme said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> if being poor is so great then why is everyone running around in the godforsaken rat race trying not to be poor? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><script class="js-extraPhrases" type="application/json"> { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.", "lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow", "lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow", "lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen", "lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails", "lightbox_download": "Download", "lightbox_share": "Share", "lightbox_zoom": "Zoom", "lightbox_new_window": "New window", "lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar" } </script> <div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="h8795C799" data-src="https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7973940224/h8795C799/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1"> <img src="https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7973940224/h8795C799/" data-url="https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7973940224/h8795C799/" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="h8795C799" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy" /> </div> <br /> ~S~</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 12980" data-quote="sparky" data-source="post: 19728618" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19728618" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19728618">sparky said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727810" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727810" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727810">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Topic is not income equality.<br /> Topic is the poor are getting richer. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Ok, what metric would you like to establish this &#039;fact&#039; by then?<br /> <br /> ~S~ </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Uh, wealth?</div>

 

[Weatherman2020]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 20594" data-quote="Mr Clean" data-source="post: 19728601" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19728601" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19728601">Mr Clean said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 42929" data-quote="Weatherman2020" data-source="post: 19727738" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727738" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727738">Weatherman2020 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 20321" data-quote="rightwinger" data-source="post: 19727731" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=19727731" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-19727731">rightwinger said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> The gap between our wealthiest and the workers is widening </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>And the poor are richer. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> <br /> Thanks to Johnsons&#039; War on Poverty and his Great Society programs. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Johnson helped people all over the world in his program?<br /> <br /> Dipshit.</div>