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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (12260)	10/26/2021 5:40:51 PM
From: Elroy	2 Recommendations Recommended By Kirk © Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26763

Inequality in the US is due to the systematic corruption of the legislative branch. Disagree! Inequality in the US exists because the US allows superstars to become superstars, and some of us do, and those of us that do become superstars fly so much higher than the average that it creates inequality. In other words, its a feature, not a bug. Go live somewhere else and try to excel above your peers. Shit gets thrown up to stop you, so no one becomes a super star. The lack of super duper excellence results in inequality being less because the very top of the measurement curve is so much lower and closer to the norm. It's like we give 5th graders a math test that tests everything from 3rd grade to 12th grade math. Most 5th graders come out somewhere between 3rd and 6th grade ability. But one 5th grader comes out with already having mastered 12th grade math! Most of us see that as something to be proud of. Others see that as proof of educational inequality, because, you know, the kids who have only mastered 3rd grade math by 5th grade are obviously being screwed over this kid who has mastered 12th grade math......

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (12260)	10/26/2021 5:46:42 PM
From: Elroy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Kirk © Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26763

Missing from that "debate" was that the war was immoral. The Vietnamese should have had the right to choose their government regardless of whether or not the US liked it. People choose their government in elections. The Vietnamese who "won" the Vietnam War (which they call the American war, they had a few preceding us and have had a few since) didn't allow anyone to choose their government. If someone didn't like them, they killed you. That's not very moral, even if the rulers at the time were Vietnamese. The US likely was fighting to allow the Vietnamese to choose their own government - that's generally what we've done when we've won wars. Too bad we lost that one. Was the Korean war moral? South Korea is a free advanced awesome place to live. North Korea is a shitty hell hole. The Korean War is the difference between the two.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (12260)	10/26/2021 5:57:13 PM
From: TigerPaw	1 Recommendation Recommended By Kirk © Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26763

The top 9.5% that are below the top 0.5% pay much more in taxes than what they use. I don't think so, They just don't realize how much it costs the country to keep them safe and secure and keep the riff-raff from coming over to their house and taking their art, and jewelry and peace-of-mind. Those are my peeps, heck the top 2% are my peeps. I work the system because I don't know just how to change it. I grew up on the border of Mexico, and to me it is obvious how the whole country will fall apart if we continue to divide into a class system with an insurmountable chasm of wealth separating groups of people. The chasm is not a result of hard work, or intelligence, or education. It's mostly a chasm of luck. The wealthy need to spread the wealth or risk living in a bunker in a firestorm.