sorry but...
dont we the 99percent
really really really want to be the 1 percent?
i thought that was the point of it all?
(checks rules)
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:46, Reply)
I think you've got that wrong....
The 99% want what the 1% have shared equally between the %99 so the %100 will be 0.001% better off and rather glad that as a world population they're in the 5% that's doing rather better than the 95% .
*some of these figures may have been pulled out of my arse*
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:55,
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You're both wrong.
It's rather that the 99% would be a lot happier if there were no 1%, regardless of how their personal wealth would change.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 13:04, Reply)
no thats idealistic...
this is not people saying "the super rich are fucking the earth and society...being rich is really bad mkay"
its people thinking
"i want to be super rich but i'm not... and those fuckers are"
are you seriously trying to argue that people would trade all their shiny conveniences, and their dreams of being rich for a world everyone was HAPPY?
are you new?
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 13:21, Reply)
I'm arguing it's envy. Just the same as you.
If there were no people richer than them they wouldn't even notice that they're the '99%'. Any change of their own wealth or standard of living is irrelevant.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 13:29, Reply)
oh sorry
i have a habit of assuming that people only post to call me an idiot.
but i feel like an idiot now
AAHHHHHH
its true...im an idiot.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 13:36, Reply)
As I am supposedly part of this %99 I feel like my voice isn't being heard
Now let's work this out.... there's currently 61,838,154 people in the UK.
So the 1% controlling the nations wealth, power and media numbers 618,381. Those un democratic bastards!
That leaves 61,219,733 people being oppressed by the %1ers that need a voice via a protest movement to speak for them.
According to the BBC there's 2000 to 3000 people at the occupy london protests.
No assuming the higher figure that all the protesters are from the %99 camp as turkeys don't vote for Christmas that means to battle the evil %1ers who are controlling the %99ers have the %0.005ers to speak on their behalf.
As far as I can see %99 of the population isn't protesting at all so we have no means to gauge what they would want. Some may as you say be happy for the %1 of the population to just vanish. Not sure how this could be achieved. Maybe some kind of ebola infected after 8 mints?
Whilst others may just wish to redress the balance a tad but accept that in society some will do better than others be it by family connections, nepotism, class bias, skills, intellect or ambition.
Or others may go father and not want a re-balance but to them themselves become part of this elite %1.
Some may I grant you wish for a total leveling of the playing field and redistribute the wealth.
But this has been done before in the former CCCP, China, and North Korea.
The CCCP imploded and became a pseudo-democratic capitalist state. The Chinese are using capitalism as a tool and buying up large parts of Africa whilst keeping their own population under tight control.
North Korea is the only country left still practising these ideals and they need to keep the population very heavily under the states thumb lest they dare say they're not entirely happy starving to death for the glorious leader.
You can re-distribute the wealth all you want but to keep the distribution level and stop the emergence of a wealthy small percentage you have to have some very nasty politics
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 13:40,
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psst.
i think we missed the irony in FB post...
but i enjoy your point none the less.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 14:44, Reply)
