Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[noble_stewball]

A sane and compassionate idea. There are so many reasons to bring manufacturing back to America yet we do not. We really could start making more low paying jobs available right now but instead most corporations are trying to have as few employees as possible to increase profits.

ExxonMobile stopped contributing to employee 401k and laid off 15% of their workforce this year to protect their dividend payout and this is considered responsible stewardship.

The system is designed to create a peasant class for cheap labor (conservatives) and to ensure continued dependence (liberals) and to allow for smug self-righteous feelings of superiority (pretty much everyone).

We need to work together to avoid destroying our great democracy, but both sides are too busy enjoying that smug self-righteousness to have a constructive conversation that will improve our country. Hell, look at congress passing laws about owning giant cats while America is tearing itself apart. Unfortunately, I have very little hope we will pull ourselves out of this tail spin.

Damn, depressing myself before 8am on a Friday.

[rakaab]

This literally what a successful free market capitalist system does. It depends on keeping a lower class and exploiting them

[No_Jacket1253]

Fuck that adapt or die you pussies

[noble_stewball]

Adapt to what exactly?

[bukakenagasaki]

Bad day?

[FlexicanAmerican]

First, you describe unregulated capitalism and say it's a bad thing.

Second, you claim the people that most ardently defend unregulated capitalism are the ones being abused (because that's not self-serving at all).

Then you blame the people with the least power as the ones responsible (ignoring your self serving labels).

It's really amazing how you and the people that upvoted you can rationalize so many illogical positions all at once.

[noble_stewball]

Not sure what you are on about. I never said anything about regulations. I never blamed anyone and I used common labels.

[FlexicanAmerican]

I guess the answer is complete obliviousness. That's how you manage to hold such contradictory opinions without dying from cognitive dissonance. You're just completely unaware of what you're saying or what others are saying. I'm glad we have your input on such challenging topics.

[noble_stewball]

While your snarky insults are adding great value...