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by jamesblonde 3603 days ago
How extreme can material inequality get before it's a problem? Well the Walton family have the same amount of money (wealth) as the bottom 160 million Americans. How much more extreme does it have to get before it doesn't become the issue?

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2013/dec/08/o...

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Today, money is immaterial. Your argument, as poignant as it may be, doesn't follow.
Money is immaterial?!? As Homer Simpson once said (to his brain): "money can be exchanged for goods and services" - like healthcare, education, important stuff....
> immaterial

> 1. Having no matter or substance.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immaterial

Pedantic and pathetic. I clarified what I meant by money, wealth.
which is not any less abstract and immaterial. There is no unit of wealth you could compare, or if there is, I'd like to know.
Postmodern bullcrap. Tell that to the homeless and malnourished in the US.