'Rich Privilege'
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It would. When comparing one female to another the 1/10 has now become a 2/10 because there are less 10/10s about. So proportionately their ugliness has become more tolerable and they're perhaps deemed prettier.
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Why am I worried?
I don't live in fairy tale world that we are all middle class.
I am honest and say I am one of the majority that is a pay check away from defaulting on rent/mortgage.
It would. When comparing one female to another the 1/10 has now become a 2/10 because there are less 10/10s about. So proportionately their ugliness has become more tolerable and they're perhaps deemed prettier.
Jesus. Not quite sure what to say to this.
Like trying to argue that if there was one rich and one poor and you took all the rich guys money away the poor person would now be the rich one. Yes maybe so. But you are talking about such a small amount of people it's meaningless.
And anyways if I saw a girl down the pub and though she was a 1/10. Then Mila Kunis dropped dead. When I next see said girl down pub she would still be a 1/10. I wouldn't think hmmm Mila Kunis is dead I now find her more attractive. So now she is 2/10
IF the government had more money then there are numerous way that they COULD spend the money that would improve the lives of everyone including the poorer people ins society and the richer alike:
Improved education quality
Improved health services
Better transportation network including better roads and more public transport
More police and safer streets
Better quality retirement homes, homeless shelters, hospitals
More opportunities for children such as funded sports club, summer schools,
Increase in science R&D to improve future medicine, energy production, transportation, business efficiency etc..
Fairer living wages, which in itself will reduce crime
My issue is whether I trust any government to really spend it wisely. On balance I believe the Greens have the best hope of fulfilling the above.
What if they were the last 2 left, and you were the last remaining alpha male on Earth?
a fairer system would be if everyone earned exactly the same wage and exactly the same tax ?
It's only unfair as long as you are the one better off?
everyone being equal would not work so some people have to pay more so some people can earn less
you earn an unfair proportion of money you pay an unfair portion of tax
But thats not fairer.
Why should a Fireman get paid the same as a dustman
Example:
But I work two 40hr a week jobs why should I pay x2.5 the tax I'm only doing twice the work
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Shags a shag. Still wouldn't mean I think she is now a 10/10 instead of 1/10.
This is the issue. It's a myth that the government take the money off the rich people and split it between those less fortunate. They ***** it on vanity projects and the like and nothing changes.
I'd bump her to a 2/10 I reckon. Make the ordeal slightly more appealing.
Save the Human race from extinction, like a boss. Only if I got £100k taxed at 20% though, otherwise, where's the fairness?
Wont make her prettier but would make her more attractive
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Well I definitely opened a can of worms didn't I! Thanks for the points of view everyone, not sure what I can add to my OP!
probably be spend on something that benefits only the people who live in london that most people don't actually want as always when there seems to be a few spare billion the government wants to waste
Not really. I'm just trolling about ugly birds. No matter what people bicker about on here the rules are set by a handful of rich people anyway whom couldn't give two shakes of a shaky thing about up north and the poor.
High speed train from west to east. £3 billion project to reduce times from 7 minutes to 6.
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Society is a like a pyramid. Very few people at the top and the majority at the bottom but we all depend on each other to have a functioning society.
Wealth is the inverse pyramid. Superimpose one on the other and you have the current situation.
If the wealth pyramid becomes too distorted you get the poorer mass rioting - the pitchfork revolution that billionaire was talking about.
Inheriting wealth as we have seen from history - pretty much history up to the modern age - distorts that pyramid, Politicians generally agree that some redistribution is needed, hence banded taxation. Most arguments are where these bands are.
We have at the moment a distorted pyramid and should the masses become much less advantaged or even feel less advantaged history has shown that disorder follows.
Toxteth in the 80's was more than about deprivation. Personally I think a re-run of that will happen somewhere in the UK within the next five years.
History shows that the greater the inequality the greater the swing politically.
Wealth is the inverse pyramid. Superimpose one on the other and you have the current situation.
If the wealth pyramid becomes too distorted you get the poorer mass rioting - the pitchfork revolution that billionaire was talking about.
Inheriting wealth as we have seen from history - pretty much history up to the modern age - distorts that pyramid, Politicians generally agree that some redistribution is needed, hence banded taxation. Most arguments are where these bands are.
We have at the moment a distorted pyramid and should the masses become much less advantaged or even feel less advantaged history has shown that disorder follows.
Toxteth in the 80's was more than about deprivation. Personally I think a re-run of that will happen somewhere in the UK within the next five years.
History shows that the greater the inequality the greater the swing politically.
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Quite a lot.
The more I researched concentration of wealth and it's associated damaging effects on society and the economy, the more I found the concept of inheritance a poor idea.
Do you want an end to inheritance then?
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Yes.
Simply put: because you can afford to. If you're earning enough to pay the top rate of tax, you're into the top 1% of earners in this country. Whether you feel it or not, you're rich compared to most people.