The War on Workers - The Fed wants us poor

[IIVI]

Or just tax the rich?! Am I tripping? During economic booms the tax rates for top 1% of earners was at 91%. Now it’s in the 30s, while lower and middle classes pay the most taxes.

…So political leaders should just raise taxes on the rich. What’s keeping them from doing it?

I’ve heard rumors that they have been bribed and threatened by rich corporations but damn, something has to give.
Otherwise, yeah…like you said-this shyt is gonna get burned down.

One thing that became very clear is how merciless the rich are.

Those wealthy have seen so many people die because of them whereas the average person doesn't have any blood on their hands.
There was a study that indicated a lot of those wealthy are legit psychopaths or sociopaths with no empathy.

I think change does not happen because people, on average, are never willing to take it to the levels the rich are.

 

[beenz]

You sure, we seen what happened in other countries what makes you think america could’ve avoided the same

I can't deal with hypotheticals. I can only deal with facts. and the facts are here, the hospitals NEVER were at full capacity

 

[Gritsngravy]

I can't deal with hypotheticals. I can only deal with facts. and the facts are here, the hospitals NEVER were at full capacity

This topic is hypothetical

Hypothetically you think everything would’ve been alright if people just keep going about shyt the same, even though we got evidence that they would’ve been a mistake

 

[Wild self]

I can't deal with hypotheticals. I can only deal with facts. and the facts are here, the hospitals NEVER were at full capacity

Your situation wasn't the same as most of the country a few years ago. You really wanted to sacrifice 10 million plus people for a damn paycheck, just say so!!

 

[Afro]

One thing that became very clear is how merciless the rich are.

Those wealthy have seen so many people die because of them whereas the average person doesn't have any blood on their hands.
There was a study that indicated a lot of those wealthy are legit psychopaths or sociopaths with no empathy.

I think change does not happen because people, on average, are never willing to take it to the levels the rich are.

Power Causes Brain Damage

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

www.theatlantic.com

If power were a prescription drug, it would come with a long list of known side effects. It can intoxicate. It can corrupt. It can even make Henry Kissinger believe that he’s sexually magnetic. But can it cause brain damage?

When various lawmakers lit into John Stumpf at a congressional hearing last fall, each seemed to find a fresh way to flay the now-former CEO of Wells Fargo for failing to stop some 5,000 employees from setting up phony accounts for customers. But it was Stumpf’s performance that stood out. Here was a man who had risen to the top of the world’s most valuable bank, yet he seemed utterly unable to read a room. Although he apologized, he didn’t appear chastened or remorseful. Nor did he seem defiant or smug or even insincere. He looked disoriented, like a jet-lagged space traveler just arrived from Planet Stumpf, where deference to him is a natural law and 5,000 a commendably small number. Even the most direct barbs—“You have got to be kidding me” (Sean Duffy of Wisconsin); “I can’t believe some of what I’m hearing here” (Gregory Meeks of New York)—failed to shake him awake.

What was going through Stumpf’s head? New research suggests that the better question may be: What wasn’t going through it?

The historian Henry Adams was being metaphorical, not medical, when he described power as “a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.” But that’s not far from where Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, ended up after years of lab and field experiments. Subjects under the influence of power, he found in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, and, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view.

Sukhvinder Obhi, a neuroscientist at McMaster University, in Ontario, recently described something similar. Unlike Keltner, who studies behaviors, Obhi studies brains. And when he put the heads of the powerful and the not-so-powerful under a transcranial-magnetic-stimulation machine, he found that power, in fact, impairs a specific neural process, “mirroring,” that may be a cornerstone of empathy. Which gives a neurological basis to what Keltner has termed the “power paradox”: Once we have power, we lose some of the capacities we needed to gain it in the first place.

That loss in capacity has been demonstrated in various creative ways. A 2006 study asked participants to draw the letter E on their forehead for others to view—a task that requires seeing yourself from an observer’s vantage point. Those feeling powerful were three times more likely to draw the E the right way to themselves—and backwards to everyone else (which calls to mind George W. Bush, who memorably held up the American flag backwards at the 2008 Olympics). Other experiments have shown that powerful people do worse at identifying what someone in a picture is feeling, or guessing how a colleague might interpret a remark.

The fact that people tend to mimic the expressions and body language of their superiors can aggravate this problem: Subordinates provide few reliable cues to the powerful. But more important, Keltner says, is the fact that the powerful stop mimicking others. Laughing when others laugh or tensing when others tense does more than ingratiate. It helps trigger the same feelings those others are experiencing and provides a window into where they are coming from. Powerful people “stop simulating the experience of others,” Keltner says, which leads to what he calls an “empathy deficit.”

 

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One thing that became very clear is how merciless the rich are.

Those wealthy have seen so many people die because of them whereas the average person doesn't have any blood on their hands.
There was a study that indicated a lot of those wealthy are legit psychopaths or sociopaths with no empathy.

I think change does not happen because people, on average, are never willing to take it to the levels the rich are.

So damn right

 

[Mook]

$1000 was the difference between life and death????

not only did they put in all that stimulus, but then all the ppp bullshyt and scamming and overall gov't waste during that time. it was not a good thing. it's like they turned on a money machine like a fire hydrant in the summer and said fukk it

The stimulus we the regular people got didn't do anything to the economy. This is propaganda

 

[Oatmeal]

I don’t understand. I’m no economic guru but anybody with two brain cells to rub together should be able to see where this leads.



I really need somebody to make this make sense.

Please do not tell me all of America has been drawn into gender, race, ethnicity, religious, political, cultural warfare to avoid making the top people pay what they owe and improve the quality of life for all.

Please don’t tell me all this shyt is about greed.

These "private" equity firms like BlackStone, KKR, Thoma Bravo, etc. own EVERYTHING. When folks talk about the "Illuminati" THOSE are the companies they should be referring to. These corporations have percentages of television networks, telecommunications businesses, food companies, etc...... They literally influence things and shift the economy. Why y'all think the housing issue and inflation isn't brought up DAILY on network television. They got these politicians in headlocks all over the country. We just had a energy sector scandal in Ohio and I knew it was coming a year before the story broke.

There was a nuclear plant that was going to be shutdown and a whole city revenue base came from the plant and all the jobs were like 6 figure salary positions...so if the plant closed all those jobs would be lost and the area would likely have ended up filled with opioid addicts and the school system would've collapsed. But instead they pushed House Bill 6 and provided subsidies and bribes were handed out all around

 

[Spatial Paradox]

I don’t understand. I’m no economic guru but anybody with two brain cells to rub together should be able to see where this leads.



I really need somebody to make this make sense.

Please do not tell me all of America has been drawn into gender, race, ethnicity, religious, political, cultural warfare to avoid making the top people pay what they owe and improve the quality of life for all.

Please don’t tell me all this shyt is about greed.

Like Warren Buffet said: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

These divisions are one really handy tool for them in that war.