U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold

Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold by metalliqaz on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:56PM (#16495580)

Non sequitur. Capitalism requires some income inequality, but runaway income inequality will not be beneficial. Eventually, people get sick of eating rotten cabbage and the guillotines come out.

Side note: "most free nation ever" is a total fiction as part of American exceptionalism. For just one example out of many, there are still religious blue laws on the books in towns across the country, and many are still enforced.

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Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold by kwhitefoot on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:19PM (#16495827)

We have laws against trading on Sundays here in Norway too. They might well have started as religiously justified laws but they are nonetheless popular here where the vast bulk of the population is non-religious and a substantial fraction avowed atheist. We don't want our day of quiet disturbed.

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Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold by moate on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:42PM (#16496084)

No matter how much you love a law, limiting someone's ability to do something peaceful* is limiting their freedom.

*Peaceful here means there ability to do something that doesn't harm others. We can start deep diving on the value of having a quiet day, but the idea that you can't buy a bottle of Gin on Sunday is a choice some people might not find is worth the quiet

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