modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

@freemo @freeschool I agree completely about this, apathy hits hard when you are at the bottom and it's a struggle just to get food on the table.

@freemo @freeschool I think one of the problems is that poor people sometimes feel shame, so they try to keep appearances up, but they have nothing to be ashamed of, once that shame turns into to anger you have a revolution coming. Only the people who get rich by making other people poor should feel shame in my opinion, but for some reason they don't, almost as if you have the "key to success" right there.

@freemo @freeschool When half the population barely gets by to make ends meet, and can't afford more than a USD$ 400 emergency on average, that's bad over all quality.

@freemo @freeschool As the class gap increases the rich get fewer, and more people get poor. This will eventually lead to revolution in some form (doesn't have to be violent). The big problem is to beat corruption in a system which is corrupt, it can't be done from within. Perhaps unrelated, but I'm pretty sure that if you and me met in real life we would become buddies with slightly difference views.

@freemo @freeschool If you can buy politicians to gain advantage for your business then there's the fault right there, it's unethical to do so, and it should be illegal. Shared blame for corrupt politicians and the rich who uses the system. In the end only a revolution can even things out, my guess it will happen soon, unless the rich invent some world war to divert attention from the class war, exciting times ahead.

@freemo @freeschool In other words, we share an opinion, democracy is failing.

@freemo @freeschool Wealthy to me is when you can buy politicians legally through donations and use lobbying, not that you can afford two cars, house and family.

@freemo @freeschool I actually don't mind a system where some people make more than others, it doesn't even seem unfair that if you work more you get more. The difference is when one person have more wealth than a whole country, and since money means power, that's wrong in my opinion.

@freemo @freeschool Not sure where you get that info from, most rich people come from wealthy families.

@freemo @freeschool They aren't the best at making money, they use their wealth to make it impossible for the rest of us to get there, the game is rigged the way I see it.

@freemo @freeschool That's not what I read, unless you are born into the top 1% you aren't going there statistically, ever. There was a time when this was possible, back when the tax on the rich was around 70%, and you had effective laws to counter cartels and monopolies, that time is gone.

@freemo @freeschool Far between, but wealth accumulated more than the lower half of the total population. It's moving towards upper class and lower class, the middle class is diminishing. Wealth transfer has already been confirmed, the upper class gained 30% on average since the start of Covid.