Agree on the "commie drivel" crack. Perhaps some of these folks can try an upgraded and more respectful post. This topic is certainly worthy of thought.
Agree on the "commie drivel" crack. Perhaps some of these folks can try an upgraded and more respectful post. This topic is certainly worthy of thought.
Well, I can take a stab at upgrading. John Stamp missed the point of the article, which isn't that "poverty produces crime" (lack of decent-paying jobs creates both poverty and crime, but that's a separate issue).
The point of the article is that runaway wealth inequality starts to look pretty dystopian and oligarchic pretty quickly. There were a few decades from the 50s through the 70s where inequality was being successfully mitigated, but now inequality is regressing back to the bad old days of feudalism and mass exploitation that made Karl Marx look at society and say "we have to be able to do better than THIS".
Conservatives love to harp on what Marx got wrong (and he got a LOT wrong), but they don't like talking about the kind of society he was living in (newly capitalist and MASSIVELY inequitable), and why it led him to think capitalism was unsalvageable.
Useful comment. You and I could have some interesting discussions, Miles. And that is what I hope for here at Tara's site. Economically and politically, Tara is quite dissimilar to by business-ownership background and political inclinations. But she does aspire, I think, to providing context for debate.
Agree on the "commie drivel" crack. Perhaps some of these folks can try an upgraded and more respectful post. This topic is certainly worthy of thought.
Well, I can take a stab at upgrading. John Stamp missed the point of the article, which isn't that "poverty produces crime" (lack of decent-paying jobs creates both poverty and crime, but that's a separate issue).
The point of the article is that runaway wealth inequality starts to look pretty dystopian and oligarchic pretty quickly. There were a few decades from the 50s through the 70s where inequality was being successfully mitigated, but now inequality is regressing back to the bad old days of feudalism and mass exploitation that made Karl Marx look at society and say "we have to be able to do better than THIS".
Conservatives love to harp on what Marx got wrong (and he got a LOT wrong), but they don't like talking about the kind of society he was living in (newly capitalist and MASSIVELY inequitable), and why it led him to think capitalism was unsalvageable.
Useful comment. You and I could have some interesting discussions, Miles. And that is what I hope for here at Tara's site. Economically and politically, Tara is quite dissimilar to by business-ownership background and political inclinations. But she does aspire, I think, to providing context for debate.
And yes...we have to be able to better than this.