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by corporateslave3 3171 days ago
Just take a look at the massive rise in quality of life across the world. Your alarmist post is bunk. Life is getting better for everyone all the time.
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Regional inequality in the US has gotten markedly worse in the last 40 years[0].

[0] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and...

This is such an empty, meaningless statement that only serves to deflect from the systemic greed and exploitation in the global financial system.

A man whose standard of life was increasing at (for example) 0.01% suddenly finds it increasing at 1.0%?

Or a family of 7 in some famine-stricken, war-torn nightmare now has half a bag of rice instead of a third?

At the same time your share in the overall wealth, prosperity and power of your nation is decreasing and being consolidated in the hands of fewer and fewer people.

A gradually increasing quality of life is something that should be an absolute minimum expectation for society, short of the effects of natural disasters and war. This is not something you should be proud of or use as an excuse to avoid the discomfort of recognising the abuses and excesses of the obscenely wealthy.

Sure the GDP of any given nation might be rising, but that only tells you how wealthy it is, not who actually benefits from that wealth.

You have traded your right to the prosperity of your nation for a an absolute minimum baseline of what will keep people docile and subservient.

And this;

> Life is getting better for everyone all the time.

Is just offensively naive to the extreme.