Originally Posted by
velosnow
The vast majority of us here discussing this are easily in the top 5% of earners, so it's easy to forget and not see the struggles of others. Moving more toward a semblance of social democracy vs corporate feudalism wouldn't be the worst thing in my book.
I'd rather regulate free markets, to the degree necessary, as opposed to create legions of people who think they're entitled to a bunch of stuff which other people will have to provide for them. Problem there is that the "other" people will get tired of doing $300K worth of work for $30K worth of benefit, and will just go on the dole like everybody else.
Or more likely it just devolves into a government-sponsored ponzi scheme that's bound to collapse eventually. Maybe let's see how Europe is doing in ten years before we get too crazy here.