… again, we enjoy the highest standard of living and fewer people are dying of hunger and sickness than ever before at a time when we have more billionaires than ever before.
Im slow though, and could be failing to understand/see what your saying.
Could you please explain how billionaires themselves have directly reduced the quality of life of Americans and/or harmed the American people by simply existing.
by not paying their employees a living wage. just because i see homeless dudes on the street walking around text messaging doesnt mean i call that a better quality of life that matters. thats the key. does it matter? NO.
20 years ago, homeless dudes wouldnt have means of communication like that. so sure you can say thats better. and i'm not talking about the crazy ones. so ask these people would they rather have facebook or a roof over their heads where rent was actually affordable?
I dare you. just ask them.
I'm watching my own city turn into a 2nd world Mega city. Where the rich have all the money to play and have all the fun in the city. while everyone else is out on the streets or living in their cars. again, i can see it with my own eyes. Sometimes I dont need the stats. Sometimes i can look out the window. I drive too da... far to work. so i go thru quite a few neighborhoods in my city/county = L.A. . and I've been here my entire life. I'm telling you right now without touching the stats there are more non crazy, non drug addicted people living in campers, their cars, in tents. then i have ever seen in the past few decades. one place i worked by the studios(Universal, etc) you would literally catch Agencies(actors/model) taking pictures under a fwy bridge because of the lighting. I saw this numerous times as i walked to work from the parking lot.
imagine this Dead.
I see 3 Hot a...Chicks dolled up, with a due with a giant camera and tripod. underneath a fwy bridge. literally right behind them are 3 homeless dudes sleeping. They have to be cropping ole boy out of the photo. I mean it was so bad one time. one of these cute ladies almost tripped over one of the homeless dudes. The least they could do is throw ole boy a hundred spot or something.
I was like wow we are all going to act like we dont see how crazy this looks?
Its next level bad. and because of the city i live in, we have the best weather and a lot of services for the homeless (but nothing permanent of course). so the entire US population of homeless people come here. where would you rather stay in december if you didnt have a home? L.A. or Detroit.
Its so bad they can no longer just sweep the homeless out of the nice areas and push them to the less nice areas. its too many of them.
Some of these super rich developers are developing ridiculous condos right in some of the mid range to low range areas. and then saying out of 100 units, 5 will be affordable housing. FIVE. so 5 working class people that aint balling will have a chance to live there, the rest have to be ballers from america or overseas ballers that buy up property and sit on it for their kids to come here and goto school or something.
straight up playground for the rich. This is not sustainable dead. You will have people in the streets rioting in a few more years if we keep going this route.
Walmart before bernie got on their heads were paying their employees at the stores less than a living wage. then they had the ordacity to tell them to go get in some social program to supplement that horrible wage. The walmart family has billions upon billions. they had to wait until old man bernie said something?
these people are using our roads to deliver their goods to their stores that are paid for by ALL of our tax dollars. they are telling their employees that are helping them make billions to go back to the tax payers and ask for some of their income to help them survive. how utterly ridiculous is that? if you dont think thats insanely unethical business practices i dont know what is.