we obviously have a caste system in america. the media and government tries to cover it up. i don't think we are that stupid or blind. but what really bothers me is that nobody does any thing about it, they don't picket in the rich areas or even DC. or at least riot are we that cowardly do we have no honor?
2006-12-02 05:38:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
sorry a caste system does not allow you to change you class, but the one we live in does, there are many self made millionaires in the U.S. and more every day, try working smarter and you might be there someday also.
2006-12-02 05:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by Hannah's Grandpa 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
You hit the nail on the head. America is a nation of sheep that never does anything until the enemy has gone about three steps beyond the point where any other culture (like the Italians) would have long-since revolted.
Oh, to answer the question, because the disparity in wealth gives the upper class more power to control the little people whom they mistrust because they believe the little people to be as capable of as much evil and perversion as they, which, I assure you, is not possible. The point is is that the rich elite do not know that we, the peons, are no threat because inside the people in each class are truly different - those of us who live and let live, living for true friends, good art, etc. and those in the elite who rule, plunder and live to dominate because they feel threatened if they were to refrain from dominance. In other words, we intelligent people allow ourselves to be dominated by our intellectual inferiors because we do not have a need for dominance because we are ok with who we are and our relation to the pecking order. This is, by the way, all driven by genetics as each person's personality is by-and-large only shaped, not formed, by the environment. How to stop the proceess? The first benevolent dictator in a cave back about 15,000 years should have had all the bullies and power-hungry people executed as an example of the punishment for how not to act - then he or she should have been totally ethical and fair in everything he/she ever did so nobody could ever think about ignoring honor or seeking another model.
2006-12-02 05:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually you pose a good question. I was poor 20 years ago. Then in 1987 I changed industry and started my own company in 1991. I'm now a staffing consultant that helps companies hire so I know all the going salaries for most types of jobs and get to see who's getting ahead and who's getting nowhere every day.
The truth is most 'rich' were dirt poor. If you were to take the 10% "rich" certain political parties love picking on ... you'd find 8.5 % of that top part of the economic spectrum earned every dime on their own. VERY FEW came into wealth from inheritance.
The trouble is to get wealthy takes a lot of sacrifice. Bill Gates did not go on vacations for 6 years while building Microsoft ... I've heard similar stories to this over and over from must business people. The difference is once you own your business you love it like you do a brand new car. Instead of waxing your car and vacuuming it on weekends, you tend to new aspects of your business.
It takes 10-20 years before a business reaches the point of making its owner wealthy. Most Americans don't want to invest this kind of time. So what happens is everyone bounces from one low job to the next ... never achieving more.
Yes there is a gap ... but hard work and sacrifice can help you narrow it. You alone are in change of your life.
2006-12-02 05:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Frank R 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why is being rich a bad thing? And exactly what is "rich"?
You say we obviously have a caste system, but clearly that is not the case. In a true caste system one cannot change their status. In this country the middle class can work harder, make themselves more valuable, start a business, and so on, and move up the ladder.
Why exactly do you have this chip on your shoulder?
I put myself through college. I have a full-time job. I work a second part-time job for a company I started. Combined my wife and I make almost $200k a year, well above the middle class. But we started out in the middle class, and I would be MUCHO TICKED OFF if my taxes were raised or other programs were set up to distribute my wealth to those that have the same opportunities but CHOOSE to have less.
P.S. I see by the negs that people can't handle the truth. We make our own good fortune in life and live in a country where anything is possible. Want more, go earn it!
2006-12-02 05:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by non_apologetic_american 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Those who do all the protesting are frauds. They are rich-kid double agents who purposely make dissent disgusting and elitist, turning off the real victims of the Preppy Republic from organizing and using the power of numbers to destroy the vicious tyranny of birth over worth. In a free country, all Americans would be cut off from their parents' money and connections at age 18. The objection that it is their parents' money and they can give it to anyone they want can be answered by the fact that they can't commit crimes with their money. Since unearned privileges create an incompetent leadership, they are anti-social and therefore criminal.
The reason people don't see what is holding them down is because money buys total, one-sided brainwashing in favor of inheritance, etc. The rich are not smart, but they are focused on unearned privileges and perpetuation of their power, so we wind up with the best ideas money can buy. For example, college education is four years working without pay, which is childish, humiliating, and self-destructive for real Americans, but irrelevant for spoiled brats because they receive fat allowances from their parents. The fact that no one ever thinks of it as obviously indentured servitude is because no one ever thinks his own thoughts about the irrational and unjust imbalance in favor of the Sperm Bingo winners, who in a free country would have just as much chance of winding up as minimum-wage workers as the children of minimum-wage workers have. Think of sports as a model, where not only can you succeed coming from poor parents, but you can succeed even if your parents have no athletic ability at all. Another proof that the whole left wing is a fraud is that you never hear them advocating abolishing inheritance, although their Conservative brothers claim that is on the leftist agenda. Abolishing birth privileges will also get rid of these phony leftist bossy snobs and give us a populist left wing.
2006-12-02 06:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why don't we picket or riot? We have been brainwashed since birth to blame ourselves for lack of wealth regardless of inequality of opportunities. We supposedly all had the same opportunities but intelligent people know that is not so. People who don't achieve wealth and security are often called lazy by the rich and rich wannabes. So we try harder and harder and all we accomplish is making the rich richer.
2006-12-02 05:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by DJ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Largely because of the tax and economic policies of idiotic "supply-siders" like Bush and Reagan.
It constantly amazes me that so many middle-class people voted for Bush, when his entire economic agenda is intended to further enrich the already rich, and to keep the middle classes from being able to gain any further economic gains. He did quite a sales job to get those people to mistakenly think he was going to "help" them when his policies have done nothing but hurt them.
Look, I'm in that "top 2%" of wealthiest Americans -- and I can't stand what those idiotic supply-side, trickle-down economic policies do to the middle and lower-class income earners. I'd gladly pay a little more in taxes to give relief to those who earn considerably less than I do.
2006-12-02 05:49:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The wealth gap is pretty widely reported--not sure where the cover up is.
How do you propose we fix it?
If you were to protest this inequality between the wealthy and the middle what would your sign say?
Isn't the gap between the wealthy and poor more important? I mean the middle isn't really left wanting for much.
Your question just raises more questions. It is easy enough to ***** and moan--why not do something yourself rather than being POd at the world?
2006-12-02 05:42:55 · answer #8 · answered by You have 23 characters to work 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is a matter of understanding success. Somewhere in the wealthy peoples lives someone understood success as it applies to building wealth. You see successful people do the things less successful people do not do. This usually involves hours of work and large risks. successful people have learned to leverage their time and money toward making money for themselves rather than someone else. Most people are so busy making a living and raising a family and recognizing this a success, that they do not do what wealthy people know to do. Actually becoming successful and wealthy is easy, I did it in two years, staying wealthy is difficult. it is easier to spend it when yuou have got it, than to save it when you do not.
2006-12-02 05:49:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The tax system sucks ( U.K) The rich get richer and poor get poorer. I mean you pay 40% tax on earning of 40K. However you still pay 40% on anything abve that. so if you earn say 200K then you still pay 40%. whilst a middle class person earning hard graft 41K will end up with almost half his wages to the tax man. its waht the govenment wants dude!!!!. let eliminate tax altogether. it can be done look at Dubai. people have a high standrad of living.
2006-12-02 05:44:29 · answer #10 · answered by singing_saagar 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the wealthy made the money for the gap to be large.
2006-12-02 05:48:57 · answer #11 · answered by Gustav 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋