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Re:Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World? by bm1362 on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:29PM (#17525483)
I don’t think it’s referring to immigration but rather the economic success associated with the American Dream- owning a house, a car and having a plan for retirement.
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Re:Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World? by mbfg on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:36PM (#17525555)
My statement still applies. The 1% owns more than the rest of society. That is a failed state.
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Re:Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World? by aeternus on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:59PM (#17527589)
How do you decide what level of wealth inequality is acceptable?
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Re:Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World? by mbfg on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:02AM (#17530384)
What a perfect society looks like is of course an incredibly hard question to answer. But not knowing the exact ideals does not discount our ability to recognize a bad state. We can move in a better direction, and yes, it's possible that we make a mistake in the other direction. But the chances of that happening are so laughable as to not even consider it.
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