Re:An Analysis of Motivations for Income Redistribution [pdf]
by carapace on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:05PM
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I don't know, I went down at looked at the camp in SF and it was homeless people, veterans, and lower-middle class folks living in tents. I don't recall anyone there who looked "2%".
Re:An Analysis of Motivations for Income Redistribution [pdf]
by axlprose on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:38PM
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I don't think you can gauge that kind of thing very accurately by how people "look". Having occasionally meet a few people that would fall into the "1%" category myself, I can safely say that none of them "looked" like they were in their income bracket. Things people flaunt are more often a reflection of their spending habits rather than their earnings.
It's striking that much of the OWS movement was made up of "the 2%" ... angry that they weren't in "the 1%".
First world, college educated people...who'd either picked the wrong majors, or didn't want to pay back their student loans, etc.