Are Computers Making Society More Unequal?

Re:Are Computers Making Society More Unequal? by MrBuddyCasino on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:18AM (#6697023)

I call bullshit on this. The nordic countries have a pretty great tech sector too, and they don't suffer from this. Its a policy thing, and I was always under the impression that this is a choice that the USA has made consciously, and is widely acepted as a given - that cutthroat capitalism creates greater inequality, with (maybe) bigger growth rates.

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Re:Are Computers Making Society More Unequal? by kgmpers on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:41PM (#6697693)

I was going to say this.

A good book on the policies that helped kill unions and weaken the middle class is Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.

http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith-ebo...

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Re:Are Computers Making Society More Unequal? by api on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:16PM (#6697499)

I agree. Reaganomics started massively concentrating wealth long before the Internet came along.

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Re:Are Computers Making Society More Unequal? by dragonwriter on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:21PM (#6697548)

Surprisingly, cutting the (progressive) income tax rates and raising the (flat-to-regressive) payroll tax rates made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Who could have guessed?

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Re:Are Computers Making Society More Unequal? by api on Friday November 08, 2013 @02:24PM (#6698503)

Trickle down economics would only work if your average rich person were a Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk, not an overstuffed communist apparatchik in a business suit.

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