Do the Elite wan't to own it all and for you to have nothing?

Question

Slavery, you just aren't living on the plantation but it cost all you make and more to live.

What a assorment of answers.

Answer 1

Yes. The top 15% own 85% of the nations wealth. They have accumulated this largely by overworking and underpaying workers. Ever notice when they fire thousands of workers from a job leaving the remaining workers to do more work, that the CEO gets millions in raises and many more millions in bonuses? They keep telling me this is capitalism and that it is a good thing. I think the system in broken, having been stomped to death by greedy men in Armani suits who don't give a damn about anything or anyone except "more, more, more".

Even the athletes suffer from this. They want to make more than the next person until the average person can no longer afford to attend ball games. Even college games are affected, they are no longer gamesmanship, they are big business.

Our business schools should begin teaching ethics since most of these people learned their ethics from their parents whose only ethics are again "more, more, more, at any cost to society".

Answer 2

Yeah, pretty much.

I am a white man who is 34 years old. My driving record is clean. I have no convictions. I have an associate's degree in computer programming. I made 4.0 GPA. My IQ is over 130. And yet, because of the area I live in, I am still jobless.

Not only that, but you KNOW that America's corporate elite want it all because of the money they take..... like 5 million dollar bonuses and the such. Then, they'll cut blue-collar workers' jobs so they can make their 5 mil. It's all wrong. I say corporate restructuring should start at THE TOP FIRST. But that is a whole other subject that I could write pages on as to why downsizing at the blue-collar level is counter-productive and PROVES that the execs are greedy.

Answer 3

You know you are the second person this week that has said that very thing. Why do you think anyone could have that much power over us? We all go to work everyday and make our own way, there are not a bunch of people sitting around a table planning our lives for us. Sounds like the God Father, "I want to be pulling the strings" I'm tired of dancing for these guys. I think that was Marlon Brandos line when he was at the council meeting after Sonny was shot.

Answer 4

Not in the USA. Where do YOU live? It sounds terrible. If you are jobless and have nothing in the USA you are lazy beyond belief. I see immigrants from Europe coming over and landing multiple jobs every single day while college grads in the US feel they are "too good" to start at the bottom. Everyone wants a starting salary of $100,000/year or better. Stop feeling so entitled. Sitting in your parents' home and crying about the elite is just creating your own problems.

Pretty much every CEO heard the very same socialist drivel when they were in college. Grow up. Get some work experience under your belt and stop expecting a college degree to do much more than prove you are trainable. Right now, you are just raw clay to most companies. You need a reality check.

Answer 5

The person before me who recommends Noam Chomsky has the right idea.

I also strongly recommend a book by David Cay Johnston called "Perfectly Legal", about how the tax code has been rigged under Republican AND DEMOCRATIC administrations to chiefly benefit those who earn over $5 million per year. He also goes into the ways that a simple PO box in Bermuda has saved some well-known companies hundreds of millions of dollars in tax, and how every attempt at reform has been shot down by some well-known names in Congress.


{The fact that the average CEO now "earns" more in a day than his average employee makes in a year says it all, if you ask me.}

Answer 6

No, the Elite don't care a thing about you and what you do or do not have. We all have the same opportunity to succeed, the Elite have just focused on what they want to achieve, and not on what other people are doing. If you do the same, instead of worrying about what others have, then you can enjoy what you DO have and attract more abundance into your life.
Try it some time....you will be pleasantly surprised.
Best wishes.

Answer 7

Their motto is "If God did not want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep." The invented the term wage slavery as it was cheaper than owning slaves. Just pay them enough to survive and so they beg for more of the same. Throw in the lottery concept and they are hooked for life.

Answer 8

Hi,

Read Noam Chomsky. He explains it very clearly in their own words from the historical record and media statements.

He quotes David Hume's vile maxim " All for us and none for you"

"What Uncle Sam Wants" "Deterring Democracy: and "Hemongy or Survival" are books to get u started,

Answer 9

I've never met anyone or even heard of anyone that wanted someone else to have nothing. Perhaps you are thinking of the wonderful island of Cuba? Or South Africa? Most westernized nations thrive on the growth of us all. No matter how much someone else has, it does not affect how much you have. It's up to you, to make your own way, not to have the government seize the wealth from those who work the hardest for it.

Answer 10

I don't believe they do. However, they have the advantage of already having privilege, power, network, and money. These only serve to bring more of the same and so they just get even richer and more powerful and more privileged. It's an unfair cycle but who said life was fair?