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Re:Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They... by Turing_Machine on Saturday August 04, 2012 @02:22PM (#4339195)
Of course, there's also a substantial and growing body of research that indicates that ill-advised attempts to "equalize wealth" also lead to social ills, such as a pile of 100 million or so dead bodies.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

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Re:Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They... by ClHans on Sunday August 05, 2012 @12:35PM (#4341851)
Ah, yes, the brutal regimes of modern-day Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and others in Northern Europe!

where people aren't routinely bankrupted by medical debt, and don't enter adult life or the adult workforce straddled by terrible student loan debt, and workers have rights!

Obviously, the sort of inequality we have in the U.S.--now greater than that of imperial Rome--obviously that's the right way to be, and the only way society (or at least a tiny fraction of it) can thrive. Right? That's what you're saying, right?

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Re:Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They... by Turing_Machine on Sunday August 05, 2012 @06:06PM (#4342825)
"where people aren't routinely bankrupted"

You haven't been following the latest economic developments in the Eurozone, I see.

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Re:Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They... by Turing_Machine on Sunday August 05, 2012 @06:05PM (#4342819)
Mod me down all you want. It won't get rid of the stench from all those corpses.
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