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Articles like this make it sound like wealth is a finite thing or number, and of course, the super-rich have the lion’s share. The fact is most average people are a lot wealthier than they were 40-50 years ago. I grew up with seven siblings in a lower-middle class family. We would have been considered poor today. Now I have two or three siblings with total wealth over one million. And my wife and I are doing quite well, thank you. However, if the trend towards quasi-commies like Obama continues, total wealth will decline. Socialism will eventually kill all healthy economies.


39 posted on 06/02/2013 7:52:56 AM PDT by driftless2
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Articles like this make it sound like wealth is a finite thing or number

I highly recommend this vanity post by chrisser. It took several readings before this point sank in: Wealth is not finite, but it DOES have a relative aspect. And it's that aspect that translates into power.

I have no desire for the wealth of the 1%. But I do have an interest in being free from the power they wield as a result of their wealth - as I suspect you do.
43 posted on 06/02/2013 8:04:08 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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