It's Called a Premortem–and It's the Most Productive Thing You'll Do All Year

Re:It's Called a Premortem–and It's the Most Productive Thin... by vtashkov on Monday January 27, 2025 @06:18AM (#42839804)

there is ZERO evidence on that! we have plenty of evidence of the opposite - you can immediately go and live in a country with equality and no billionaires - Cuba, for example, but no - you prefer to stay in the USA and downvote me - who lived through the socialism and saw what absolute HELL is when people like you are in charge.

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Re:It's Called a Premortem–and It's the Most Productive Thin... by DavidPiper on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:27AM (#42840420)

I'm not sure what the GP's post was, but I'm genuinely curious. I have no experience of socialist countries, but I have several friends and colleagues who have emigrated over the last decade or so.

1. Is income equality the primary driver of a country descending into social turmoil?

2. If not, is the USA so politically and socially similar to those countries in other ways that an income equality system - or a system that moves in that direction - would be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back?

I'm particularly interested in #2 as a non-American.

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