the funny thing is the 'corporations' own most of the money floating in the economy, and those same entities are actively trying every way to cut corners and save costs (which is just good business sense), but they are simultaneously damaging the morale of employees and tainting community outreach programs and 'philanthropic' initiatives designed to enrich the world but instead sefishly serves their own financial bottom line. ask yourself why are the 'corporations' continually dumping toxic sludge and chemical byproducts (which are all too often leading to birth defects and general lower quality of life in '3rd world' developing nations) in places where their influence doesn't mean a thing? 'corporations' are also to blame for my neighbour (who has a cousin who intimately can relate the details) losing his lucrative technology job with a prominent pharmacology company that decided to outsource his position to someone who considers themselves lucky to work for a fraction of what that kind of work would demand of a self-respecting human in a 'capitalist' society (to rub salt on the wound, he was forced to train his replacement). the same thing happens with landscaping or construction firms that hire people lacking proper documentation to work legally in said country, just to pay them 'under the table' so they don't get taxed and the IRS doesn't come knocking (which btw, opens the door to a ton of fraud and abuse). ask yourself why do the 'corporations' preach equality of opportunity in the 'land of the free' but their own practices consistently conflict with their self-preaching? does that not signal something wrong with society itself and the values we hold dearly
Hmmm you seem to have problems with Gender study and equality... @UnclePeet
Assertions
Luxury employed a million of the poor, and odious pride a million more.
Envy itself, and vanity, were ministers of industry.
Their darling folly fickleness, in diet, furniture and dress,
That strange ridiculous vice was made, the very wheel that turned the trade.
Thus vice nursed ingenuity, which joined with time and industry,
Had carried life's conveniences: It's real pleasures, comforts, ease,
To such a height, the very poor lived better than the rich before.
Meet the 1% (occupy Wall Street).
TLDW? Very wealthy "1%er" explaining things to people who can barely tie their own shoelaces.
I just need my monthly allowance that's all I care about
You can keep praying for a miracle, or you can go and get a job.
I just need my monthly allowance that's all I care about
Everyone gets poorer under communism. That was one of Mandeville's points in my original post: the poor being lifted along with the rich to a better standard of living.
"We're richer than we were 55 years ago, and have fewer people on very low incomes. But the gap between rich and poor is much larger" - the institute for fiscal studies.
I've made several posts on here before about the rise in use of things like foodbanks because of the lockdowns.
I have faith TO SEE EXACTLY AS I STATED AND EVEN FAR MUCH MORE BEYOND FATHOMING, fella.