[quote=CA renter]You keep referring to people who are not “like you” as lazy. Has it ever occurred to you that they might be harder-working, and even smarter than you? Some of the hardest workers are often the poorest, and I can show you many, many people with Ph.D.’s (even with your much-loved STEM degrees) who don’t even make $100K after decades on the job as a successful and proven employee.
BTW, you need to acknowledge the weakness of your STEM degree and start reading a few history/sociology/political science books. Those who are what you call “lazy” will not die, though they will adapt in a way that you will not like at all. They will kill those who they perceive to be impoverishing them and taking away their opportunities. It has always been that way. You cannot impoverish the majority of the population for the benefit of the few without some very negative effects, and God help you if you maintain the arrogant attitude that you are somehow better than they are, or “deserve” wealth and opportunity more than they do.[/quote]CAR, it’s called the figure of speech. I wasn’t saying me specifically. I mean people who adapt to the ever changing world will be just fine. While those who are stuck in the past, hoping things will return to the way they were will be left behind.
You’re right, when the wealth discrepancy becomes too great, then communism takes over. I’ve experienced it and know people who lost family members because of it. However, that’s also many years ago. Things have changed. The world is much more mobile today. If I get a whiff of that happening here, I’ll be on the next flight to somewhere else safer.
IIRC, you’re the one who constantly say people deserve X. I’m saying no one deserve anything. If you want it, you have to work hard to get it. You’re doing exactly just that, else, you wouldn’t have sold your house at the peak and buy your current house at/near the bottom. You have no idea what it’s like to be poor and have to work hard & smart & have a little luck on your side to make it. I have.
No one is impoverish anyone. I’m not advocating anyone impoverishing anyone else. Unlike you, I’m not arrogant enough to think I can change things. I can only state what I see and try to adapt myself to the ever changing world. The only constant in this world is change. If you don’t adapt, you’ll be left behind.