America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by tengbretson on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:20PM (#26108188)

> Those programs are intended to improve the majority of people's lives. You can interpret that as "more equal" if you want.

If tomorrow everyone was given all of those programs, but the income distribution stayed the same as it were today, would everyone go home satisfied or would they discover new things that needed providing?

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Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by kgin on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:42PM (#26108406)

It's hard to be sure 100%, but I feel like whatever the outcome, this thought experiment doesn't really yield useful information unless you're hoping for the outcome be "they don't really want healthcare, they're just faking their desire for healthcare because they want to take things away from wealthy people". I'm pretty sure the desire for healthcare isn't just a ruse.

After everyone has healthcare, will there be people who desire a more-flattened society? Possibly. There are a lot of different people in the world with a lot of different ideas. But that's a separate conversation.

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Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by lovegoblin on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:55PM (#26108559)

> would they discover new things that needed providing?

...of course? These programs would (imo) make a better world, but not a perfect one.

Just because you accomplish Goal #1 doesn't mean that you can't continue on to strive for Goal #2.

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Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by carabiner on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:10PM (#26108740)

Ask the citizens of countries with those programs? They seem satisfied.

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