I've found getting people to do the right thing doesn't work when you don't have leverage on them

Yes

*C'mon, don't do that, it's not right* is not a persuasive argument to those that simply don't care

thus the mobs and pitch forks

class division

Which ties it all back to the importance of class mobility

And passing some of those earnings down to the workers

I’d be on the short end of the stick without class mobility

Find balance between the old order and the new @John O -

So we don't end up right where we're currently at

Going back 3 or 4 gens anyhow

Literally everyone in IE would @William Russell

That’s no joke

Corporate earnings way up, stock market way up, wages... the same. Angry people, why's that?

People are making our salaries in a pay period.

@Deleted User fs my dude. I'm not an economist, I'm not smart enough to re-invent the wheel, all I know is that romanticizing miserable periods of human history is bad

and then going to book it when it all falls apart

only to come back to invest in the shattered and cheap market

My mom's mom was definitely aristocracy, but most of the rest of my family was lower class and rose up, or was already middle class for generations

My great grandfather and his family were driven from Missouri into Mexico. We were refugees.

There was a period of US history where land was owned by the greatest proportion of the population in the middle part of last century, but that proportion is rapidly shrinking, and will shrink even greater when the bubble pops and property values plummet

All I want in life is to be a land owner

Well not all but...

I’ve been saving for about 80 acres

Take it before they take it all for themselves

There’s liberation in owning land.

Kinda, lol

A privacy I’ve never had being a renter my whole life

I feel like land ownership especially in rural america is a sign of aristocracy.

Definitely.

I used to believe all the myths about the South being open and free and people hunting and the poor fishing

You're lucky you are not in the west. The western half of the US is mostly owned by the federal government. That's why we have so many wildfires. 90% of the California wildfires are started on federally managed land.

Turns out everywhere is owned and to hunt you have to pay a lease or find the owner of the land

I'm from out west originally, that's why I had a false impression of the South

California...

kek

*Southern* California...

Oooof

*Los Angeles*...

OOOOOOOOOF

@Flint yeah crazy it's almost like the top 2% of the earners in this country are trying to create a soft Serfdom