walkonby wrote:
is it just me . . . because sometimes i dont think right, but when i read stuff like this
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/us/backlash-by-the-bay-tech-riches-alter-a-city.html?_r=0
all i hear is poorer people with shitty jobs being jealous of richer people with great jobs. i love this whole, "people who have great jobs, are the enemy."
Does this surprise you in the industrialized country with the worst distribution of income?
Actually your statement "all I hear" is just wrong… that is the kind of stuff that happens elsewhere in the world..if that is all you're hearing you're not listening because what we tend to hear all the time is the brainwashing "american dream" baloney and that anyone can make it.. everyone gets a fair shot American come to the save the fucking universe…. more likely you, like most people, hear what you believe or pay more attention when you hear what you want to hear (i.e., what agrees with the way you view the world/what you expect to hear)…. here in America due to the deep hold social darwinism has with a basis on puritanism I would say most poor people view themselves as failures and they see rich people as "good because they made it"….I've lived in other countries where poor people simply think they're poor because they never had a chance and are getting fucked over by the rich in collusion with the government… this very american view of things is why the party of the left in this country is so so much further to the right than the left in other countries…. really the Democratic party would be considered right wing in most countries.. recent studies seem to demonstrate that there is less upward mobility in the US than in many other industrialized countries but that doesn't conform to the mythological "american dream".. .it will take a few more decades of increasing income inequality for something to change.. we'll all be dead.
