What is your opinion on Income Inequality?

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

Get a job. /opinion.

You are aware, I hope, that in most if not all Western economies there are more unemployed people than jobs by a considerable margin?

[Franklin Delano Bluth]

Only if you hate freedom and love slavery.

You're the one who supports slavery i.e. slavery to the "common good". I don't give half a fuck about the rest of society. I do what is good for my own interests.

One is not free when one is obligated to subordinate his own desires, goals, and potential to the need to satisfy someone else in order to ensure access to the material requirements of survival.

[North Stradia]

You're the one who supports slavery i.e. slavery to the "common good". I don't give half a fuck about the rest of society. I do what is good for my own interests.

One is not free when one is obligated to subordinate his own desires, goals, and potential to the need to satisfy someone else in order to ensure access to the material requirements of survival.

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

[Grave_n_idle]

Income inequality is a sign of a nation not only prospering but one with a meritocracy.

Income and merit are only incidentally related.

By this I mean, you can get more power and influence if you work hard at becoming rich.

That's not what meritocracy means.

[Divair]

One is not free when one is obligated to subordinate his own desires, goals, and potential to the need to satisfy someone else in order to ensure access to the material requirements of survival.

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

Says you.

[CVT Temp]

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

Rights are a construct of a given society. Whether something should be a right depends on how feasible it is to implement.

[North Stradia]

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

Says you.

Taxation is theft. I should not be forced to subjugate myself to the bottom feeders of society who are too incompetent to get by on their own.

[Divair]

Says you.

Taxation is theft. I should not be forced to subjugate myself to the bottom feeders of society who are too incompetent to get by on their own.

Again, says you.

[ALMF]

Inequity is the means of capitalism, it also leads to accumulation of wealth witch disrupts capitalism.

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

One is not free when one is obligated to subordinate his own desires, goals, and potential to the need to satisfy someone else in order to ensure access to the material requirements of survival.

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

Do you know what the UDHR is?

[The Black Forrest]

One is not free when one is obligated to subordinate his own desires, goals, and potential to the need to satisfy someone else in order to ensure access to the material requirements of survival.

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

Why not?

[New Acardia]

It is a by product of a healthy economy and society.

[Uelvan]

Because everyone, who ever got money, ever, is a lying and thieving asshole. Way over generalizing there.

Anyone who possesses in excess of the social mean is, yes.

People who on top got there on work.

Absolutely; it takes a lot of work to set up schemes to lie, cheat, and steal. I don't deny that at all.

The question is, is it the sort of work that is socially beneficial or not? Is it the sort of work that is compatible with a free society or not?

Work hard your whole life, and you'll see success.

Again, depends on what kind of work. Dishonest work, absolutely. Honest work, not at all.

You are really ignorant or lazy if you think 100% of all rich people got there by lying, cheating, stealing, assaulting, and manipulating everyone.

[The Black Forrest]

Says you.

Taxation is theft. I should not be forced to subjugate myself to the bottom feeders of society who are too incompetent to get by on their own.

Wow. Who taught you this?

[North Stradia]

Income inequality is good, because people are not equal. Equality of opportunity is okay, but equality of outcome is a horrible idea. Any attempt by the state to balance income inequalities is immoral and should be discouraged.

This. Except that equality of opportunity is NOT okay. Equality before the law is the only equality I care about.

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

It is a by product of a healthy economy and society.

It's funny, because you assume that capitalism is a healthy economic model.

[Divair]

Taxation is theft. I should not be forced to subjugate myself to the bottom feeders of society who are too incompetent to get by on their own.

Wow. Who taught you this?

Ayn Rand.

[CVT Temp]

Taxation is theft.

Vacuous rhetoric.

I should not be forced to subjugate myself to the bottom feeders of society who are too incompetent to get by on their own.

Paying taxes is not "subjugation." Only someone with the immense privilege of living in a first world country could possibly conflate paying taxes with enslavement.

[New Acardia]

It is a by product of a healthy economy and society.

[North Stradia]

Food is not a right.
Housing is not a right.
Medical care is not a right.

Do you know what the UDHR is?

Immoral and wrong.

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

This. Except that equality of opportunity is NOT okay. Equality before the law is the only equality I care about.

So you don't mind discrimination based on race or gender?

Do you know what the UDHR is?

Immoral and wrong.

That is probably the most amazingly bullshit bullshit I've ever seen on NSG.

[Grave_n_idle]

Says you.

Taxation is theft. I should not be forced to subjugate myself to the bottom feeders of society who are too incompetent to get by on their own.

No one gets by on their own.

I guess you're down here at the bottom. With everyone else. Eat up.

[The Black Forrest]

Do you know what the UDHR is?

Immoral and wrong.

How so?

[North Stradia]

This. Except that equality of opportunity is NOT okay. Equality before the law is the only equality I care about.

So you don't mind discrimination based on race or gender?

I don't like it, but idiots have the right to be idiots.

[CVT Temp]

Except that equality of opportunity is NOT okay.

At least one of them finally admits it. "Equality of opportunity" is just another one of their lies.