The top 26 billionaires own $1.4 trillion — as much as 3.8 billion other people

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  1. TOG 6

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    Diminishing purchasing power is not the same as "poorer and poorer". Don't move the goalpost.

    Explain how it is you are overqualified, but getting poorer and poorer even though you're working more and more
    Tell us why you don't you have a marketable skillset.
     
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    Badaboom Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes it is.
    And you still haven't proved that I lied or retracted so I've reported you for personal attack. I'm also putting you on ignore as you aren't being honest in your argumentation. Beubye!
     
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    Said the ocean to the drop of water.
     
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    It's only when the boss says, "You got the job," that you become qualified.

    "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Coolidge
     
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    Don't take it seriously - he made it all up to fit his argument.

    If you consistently work more and make less it's because you do not possess a marketable skill.
     
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    Or they're vastly wrong in their estimations of their "qualifications". That happens here a lot ---- claims of "I'm more qualified than you", "I'm smarter than you", "I know more about _____ than you do". "More qualified than" is highly subjective. The head fry cook's job is only impressive to the fry-cook-in-training.
     
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    Well, I make more and more each year, so his baseless claim of being "more overqualified" than me is pyrrhic at best.
     
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    I swear I would ever see the day when communist became mainstream and acceptable, not here in America

    Mass murdering communist dictators used that same class warfare rhetoric to gain power as I'm seeing being spewed today
    don't these ignorant liberal droids know the history of communism and how they mass murdered over 140 million people the largest body count ever accumulated under one political ideology more so then all other political ideologies combined even fascism only mass murdered about 15 million 9 times less then communism
     
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    TRFjr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    liberal are under the misconception they should get payed what they think they are worth not that they get paid who signs there check knows what they are worth
    liberal need to understand their labor is no different then a product sitting on a store shelf that products worth is determined by what the consumer is willing to pay not what the producer wants it to be worth
     
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    RodB Well-Known Member Donor

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    There was also a ballooning and fast growing middle class. The fact that it did not happen overnight and had some problems along the way pales in comparison.
     
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    i am sure the history channel could use your knowledge.
     
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    RodB Well-Known Member Donor

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    Could be....
     
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    Nope. Some cultures value other things.
     

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