woander
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
North Korea, Soviet Union, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, etc all have income inequality. I don't think anyone would say their economies are/were functioning properly.
> Income inequality rewards the development of all of those qualities.
Not necessarily.
Your statement would be true if every generation started a 0, on equal footing and the system/environment was fair. Would you say that income inequality in Confederate South was a result of rewarding "talents, ambition, tolerance for risk, vision"?
Income inequality is a very complex subject. People who try to frame it in a simplistic black and white worldview really do it a disservice.
You have to realize that most things can be viewed as bigotry and extremism. Look at how feminism and lgbt are viewed around the world - as extremism. Would you say twitter "embraces" bigotry and extremism because they allow feminism and lgbt on their platform?
It's a question about monopoly and fairness and the cultural values of america. Free speech is both a legal and a cultural concept.
It's always "I used to work at and so and so is great" or "I know someone who worked at and so and so is great".
Now lets look into israel and their spying/influence in traditional and social media.
It was amazing the amount of "news" and social media spam we got about russia ( We were always at war with eurasia ). It's amazing the amount of "news" and social media spam we are getting about china ( We were always at war with eastasia ).
But one hardly ever hears a peep about israel or saudi arabia. Considering what is happening to the palestinians, yemenis, etc, you would think you'd hear a lot more "news" about them. Especially about saudi arabia from the feminist/lgbt traditional media considering the saudis probably treat women and the lgbt as badly as any nation on earth.
How come the "news" industry isn't going apeshit over more than half of the state and the US house of senate pushing unconstitutional anti-BDS laws?
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/new-...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-house-overwhelmingly-passes...
A country founded on boycotts banning its corporations from boycotting a foreign country?