Poor Getting Poorer: Not Sustainable
One may say that the content of the meme here is obscene. I would submit, however, that while extreme wealth isn’t a problem, situations like these are, where you and I, through our taxes, are picking up the tab for the greed of the Walton family, whose employees are paid so poorly that 30% of them are on public assistance.
Craig,
Here’s a simple solution. Fist explain and convince your fellow Americans to pay the sort of price for labour and stop buying cheap goods made in the third world or from US ‘sweat shop’ labour using illegal migrants.
See, the answer is so simple! Of course, with those sort of business dynamics consumer prices would quadruple and unemployment would exceed the great Depression, but what the hey !
That would be only a small price if there was a small chance to impose a Soviet style “peoples’ economy wouldn’t it?
Much easier to sit around the cracker barrel snorting indignantly with self-righteous hypocrisy at the supposed iniquities of the rich.