Rich-Poor Gap Widens in Europe, North America

Originally posted by shavixmir
Dude... you're talking to someone who thinks McCarthyism was justified...

but it was justified.

Originally posted by shavixmir
That's about the daftest solution you've come up with so far. And that's saying something!

have you got anything better?

Originally posted by shavixmir
It seems to work perfectly well for the rest of the animal kingdom.
And it worked quite well for humans for the last 100.000 years (give or take the last couple of centuries).

Or, in your case, the last 1000 years or whatever the hell you believe.

we're not savages though.

Originally posted by frankmarshall
If one has talent and is prepared to work hard and take risks then one will usually succeed. Thoae lacking one or more of these ingredients will usually not. So what are you griping about?

What should we do with those born without talent?

Furthermore, a "risk" implies some degree of a gamble. What happens when the gamble doesn´t pay off.

So the only one that we have full control over ourselves is "work hard".

Do you find it at all ironic that a corporate western world is basically saying that the key to success is hard labour?