>>>>>It's a valuable reminder of what extraordinary people accomplish.
>>>>>They are rare, but we have to be ready for them.
>>>
>>>Meanwhile lets not insist that extraordinary (sic) achievements are something anybody might achieve, if only they would strive for a change.
>>
>>>>There's credit in regular work done with loyalty and competence and the pay ought to be enough to at least match prosperity enjoyed by parents if not exceed it
>>Exactly.
>>But you won't see that if people accept the con that they're lucky to have a job flipping hamburgers for $12/hour while people are buying condos in NYC for $20 million.
>>That flipper is a victim of economic oppression.
>>It's insane that there is no wage inflation here when the unemployment rate is at record lows.
>>That could never have happened before the anti-labor actions started by Carter and Reagan and continued by every president since.
>>
>>I don't expect the flipper to take that on- that's what leadership does.
>>John L Lewis, Cesar Chavez, and FDR did it here- with limited success- but the most notable example in my lifetime of how seemingly helpless people can overcome economic oppression can be found in what Gandhi accomplished in India.
>>
>>When the British governor asked Gandhi how he expected to stop the oppression, Gandhi's answer was simple, but brutally radical -
>>"There are too many of us."
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMv0hMy6a0


It's pretty simple
You can relate the dramatic increase in wealth inequality here to the Reagan tax cuts and those that followed.
It was a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

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