Quote:
Originally posted by BRISK
America is the wealthiest country in the world, but the average American is not wealthy. The majority of the wealth is held by a small percentage of Americans.
|
Americans on average enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world. Our average "poor" family own a VCR, DVD player, microwave oven, car, 2/3 of them own their homes and they're FAT! Most poor people in the world only wish they were fat. Our "poor" are only poor by comparisson to the wealthy.
Also, capitalism works best when money is spread more egalitarianly. The only reason it isn't entirely egalitarian is because not everyone is just as smart as everyone else and puts forth just as much effort as everyone else.
__________________
Alt Journals, Blogs for Perverts!
Fitness and nutrition writer, and UNIX/Linux Sys Ad in training
"Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."