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Why Do Young People Care So Much about Income Inequality?
National Review ^ | 07/19/2018 | Brad Polumbo

Posted on 07/19/2018 7:46:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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Deep down, they know that with the crap educations they got, they’ll never make as much as the people on top, but they feel entitled to do so, so they want income redistribution so they can get what their self-esteem level tells them they’re entitled to.


61 posted on 07/19/2018 9:52:22 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They see it, because it does exist; but are too ignorant to know why. Then their equally ignorant teachers and the then professors, who are either ignorant or evil, tell them it’s because of conservatives or capitalism. And it’s all they hear in the leftist pushed college system. It’s why leftards push so hard for college education. They’ve won that battleground and aim to keep it.


62 posted on 07/19/2018 10:11:57 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why? Because as children they believe in fairy tales.


63 posted on 07/19/2018 10:20:54 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Radical Son by David Horowitz shows how all radical Leftism (if that is not from the
department of redundancy department) is anti-American. An enemy is needed as a facade,
and 1966-1972 that was anti-Vietnam war. But something is necessary to coalesce around
like BLM, income inequality, honky hubris, immigration, etal.
64 posted on 07/19/2018 10:29:30 AM PDT by jobim
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To: SeekAndFind
In a capitalist society, an entrepreneur will find a need and fill it, while a politician will find a need and convince you that you've been cheated out of it.

-PJ

65 posted on 07/19/2018 10:32:02 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“There is a passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”

Tocqueville.


66 posted on 07/19/2018 10:32:21 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind

“Why Do Young People Care So Much about Income Inequality?”

The answer is in the question. They are young, ignorant and thus easily fooled.


67 posted on 07/19/2018 10:36:07 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: xrmusn

D== Father worked hard at school & worked hrd after to accumulate A B & C.

These kids today don’t understand hard work.

They are lazy & have had WAAAAY too much handed to them. Even a wild critter finds it’s own food.

This will backfire on them. Why would I work harder to support another person who would get paid the same money & would do very little?

This is ATLAS SHRUGGED happening right in front of us all.

I will GO GALT before I will work to support another person.


68 posted on 07/19/2018 10:54:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: dfwgator

Some people don’t want to be responsible for themselves, “””

They have been raised & well trained by their parents to NOT be responsible. They cannot do laundry. Dishes. Study. Repair ANYTHING. Etc. They have been given cell phones at age 6, games that are fantasy based, no understanding of the value of anything.

They sometimes know what something COSTS-—but they have no idea of what something is WORTH. They do not know how to calculate the VALUE of anything.

They are loud & disrespectful all hours of the day & night, and when you complain, they are dumbstruck that you did such a complaint.

When all hell breaks loose in this country—and they ARE pushing us into that-—they will be among the first to be eliminated. They don’t know anything about surviving, except to use the touch screen on their cell phone-—which won’t work for long when the SHTF.

I have NO sympathy for a single one of them. Good riddance.


69 posted on 07/19/2018 11:01:59 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: bgill

SPOT ON !!!


70 posted on 07/19/2018 11:03:52 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles
The kids you write of have been conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to accept egalitarian make believe, that everyone has basically equal potential, and that therefore there is some form of social injustice involved in relative poverty.

The preoccupation that you refer to is compulsion driven.

See Compassion Or Compulsion?.

Or consider how the Leftists in Academia & the mass media divert attention from actual cause & effect: Misdirection: Familiar Leftist Tactic.

71 posted on 07/19/2018 11:05:08 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: ridesthemiles

“These kids today don’t understand hard work.”


BALONEY!

The kids that whine and complain are the ones that get the publicity————MOST of them are working and studying the same way that we did.

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72 posted on 07/19/2018 11:08:46 AM PDT by Mears
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To: ridesthemiles

——These kids today don’t understand hard work.——

They understand hard work...

They just think they are entitled not to have to do it...


73 posted on 07/19/2018 11:11:54 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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"Why Do Young People Care So Much about Income Inequality?"

Because they're little commie ba$tard$..??

But it's not totally their fault.. It was the TEACHER'S UNION that messed them up...!

74 posted on 07/19/2018 11:17:06 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: ridesthemiles

I will GO GALT before I will work to support another person.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Sorry, I thought “D” would have been automatically in the mix... (you do realize the ‘message’ was ‘True’ sarcasm don’t you?)

As to ‘going Galt’, YOU and ALL taxpayers are ‘supporting’ others, be it welfare, food stamps, unemployment, jail etc etc etc..<: <: <:


75 posted on 07/19/2018 2:16:30 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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Deep down, they know that with the crap educations they got, they’ll never make as much as the people on top, but they feel entitled to do so, so they want income redistribution so they can get what their self-esteem level tells them they’re entitled to.

A lot of bashing of Millennials going on on this forum but as a member of Gen-X, that forgotten generation sandwiched between the massive Boomer population and their massive Millennial offspring, I can't help but think that Millennials have some legitimate grievances. After all, they were handed this massive s*** sandwich by their parents (and "Greatest Generation" grandparents).

It weren't Millennials who raised the price of a college education to that of a starter home while at the same time making a bachelor's degree virtually useless. It were their parents and grandparents.

It weren't Millennials who exported American manufacturing overseas while importing an army of 3rd World slave laborers to drive wages to the gutter. It were their parents and grandparents.

It weren't Millennials who jacked up health care so thoroughly that breaking an arm costs tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills. It were their parents and grandparents.

Never have more selfish generations existed than the ones who handed the bill to Millennials. And people here act surprised that young people favor socialism? It shouldn't surprise anyone! And it shouldn't surprise anyone when they vote for it.

76 posted on 07/19/2018 2:41:33 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: SeekAndFind

Want to really upset the little Lefties?

Just eliminate Payroll Tax Withholding and Schedule Election Day on April 16th.


77 posted on 07/19/2018 2:45:21 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: SeekAndFind

” WHY DO YOUNG PEOPLE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY “.

Because all of us old farts have most of the money.


78 posted on 07/19/2018 4:29:50 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

They can keep the income, I just want all the same STUFF as they get (FOR FREE).


79 posted on 07/19/2018 4:32:59 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Redleg Duke

There ya go.
Worked too, didn’t it.


80 posted on 07/19/2018 4:44:06 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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