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Offline Omni

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Re: Greta Thunberg: Inspirational or Annoying?
« Reply #75 on: September 28, 2019, 02:34:06 pm »
Except there is no evidence to support this assertion. Societies with a rules based economic system that allow the accumulation of private wealth provide better for all people in society. Even if you you want to cherry pick a few statistics they are not going to change the fact that the "economic model" we have today is a result of centuries of trial error to determine the best compromise. Nor is anyone arguing that the model does not have to continue to be tweaked as time goes on which makes it very different from pure religion of climate alarmists that insist that policies which can't work must be adopted to save us from problems that we can't measure or predict with any meaningful certainty.

Here is one of those statistics which should show you that the accumulation of private wealth does NOT provide better for all people when in the US the top 1% own 40% of the nations wealth while the bottom 80% own 7%, and the income gap between the top 10% and the middle class is over 1000%.
Those are 2014 stats and the gaps continue to widen.
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