@breadandcircuses I think a more historical perspective would include "steal land and murder the people living there"

@breadandcircuses The printing money section is missing.

@breadandcircuses I miss “greed” in the lower pie-chart.

@breadandcircuses "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"

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@breadandcircuses Probably a third or more of current wealth comes from financial speculation and gamesmanship.

@breadandcircuses read Steve Jobs biography. Then repost

@breadandcircuses It is in the attitude. If you look at people who succeed at the top, not too many of them are nice people. Ruthlessness and psychopathic traits are very good for you if you want to make it 🤔

@breadandcircuses Top left quadrant is how ANYONE can get rich if you really want it. It's so much bull$&t and it's how the American Dream should work.

Those attributes worked well until you work at a job with a lousy or no healthcare plan, or if your employer picks up and moves to another state or country.

It's not enough anymore, and yes Virginia, the improvement of all of us will need to have some more of the rich pay their share, not in absolute numbers but as a percentage of net income.

@breadandcircuses Horatio Alger stories.

@breadandcircuses of course the "birth lottery" just means that their ancestors mercilessly exploited the working class....

@breadandcircuses simple by owning "assets" = housing + charging rent

@breadandcircuses technology has made lives easier, just not ours.

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ALWAYS REMEMBER:

"#DEI" stands for "Don, Eric & Ivanka."

Large state subsidizes (so help even from the poorest by taxes when they buy bread) to their companies is forgotten in the second part ;)

@breadandcircuses the “hard work” one always gets me; isn’t the person cleaning toilets working hard too?

@breadandcircuses The green half is the same as above; remove that one and replace it with "sheer luck"