Danger said:
Brain-teaser time.
We have a rich man, a poor man and a president.
- The poor man sees his dollar buying less every day....the price of gas goes up, food goes up, entertainment goes up. His pay may grow, but he has never been poorer.
- The rich man see his investments go up in value every day. Gold is up, oil is up, silver is up. He has never been richer.
- The president prints up more and more money every day, devaluing the dollar and wage that the poor earn, but it also raises the value of the rich man's investment.
Who exactly is at fault here?
- The poor man for not knowing what is happening?
- The rich man for knowing what is and how to protect himself?
- The president for devaluing the poor man's income?
Where do you suppose the root cause of all of this is?
I see what you're saying, and you're right. But, that's not the problem. The problem is how stacked it is against the poor man and how much easier it has become for the rich to get richer. Also, how the rich man is secretly influencing the president / politicians on top of that.(To make my previous statement true)
Not saying it's just the rich persons fault for doing this. Heck, who wouldn't if they could.(Actually quite a few people, FDR, JFK, MLK , Bernie Sanders to name a few) Just trying to play some devils advocate. What we should have are things in place to make it impossible for them to have that kind of influence. Not even give them the chance.
I think the most obvious place where this enabling of corruption starts(due to ignorance) is education(or lack there of). If people were actually educated and knew what was going on or interested into what was going on there's no way half the sh1t would've passed that did in the last 10 years especially.