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by zyx321 4268 days ago

    9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact
Was Upworthy really the best source for this? The transcript is very nearly useless.

Furthermore, 'true' captalism with a truly free market is quite unrealistic, since it would require all participants to be effectively omniscient and infinitely rational (and even then you would have to compare it to 'true' communism, where no one is ever selfish or lazy)

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I think the original source is on a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM . The video aggregates data from multiple sources:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit... http://danariely.com/2010/09/30/wealth-inequality/ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334156/top-five-... http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/news/economy/ceo-pay/index.h...

How reliable these sources are, I'm not sure. If the information is wrong, I wouldn't blame it on Upworthy, it's a distribution channel after all.

I'm not disputing the video. I haven't been able to watch it yet.

I'm saying we shouldn't be supporting the likes of Upworthy under any circumstances.