@Va77ss@ThinkingUSD See, they take a horrifying event and use it to incriminate a huge swath of people that haven't committed any crimes because it aligns with their prior biases. It's reductive and sloppy, but a convenient narrative because it's simple.
@bitcoinpanda69 I get what you mean. But really, it's a matter of perspective. If one believes that his political activities were abhorrent and destructive, it's hard to separate from entrepreneurial success. Just human nature.
@DavidAFrench If I caught my kid doing this to other kids, his social life would cease to exist. The lonely eater would be the most interesting man in the world in comparison.
@paulg@rrrazmikkk@RoKhanna No one is questioning that investors are the wealthiest cohort, but the question Paul asked was tedious. We can recognize that people are free to create wealth in the market, but also acknowledge the systemic advantage of capital.
@paulg@rrrazmikkk@RoKhanna But whatโs the point of this narrow question when talking about the scale of wealth inequality? Is your premise that such yawning gaps are just the result of having some successful, bootstrapping entrepreneurs?
@rpzy@davidgaw@mattyglesias These are people who want us to think that partisanship isnโt the primary vehicle to inflict racial disparity and that itโs only racism if they explicitly say it out loud. Iโm sure this is exactly what the framers of the 14th and 15th intended.