tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post1971458592179815920..comments2024-03-29T03:57:26.974-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: The New Yorker 'splains it all.Grimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-35099565169839475352016-12-01T16:51:53.489-05:002016-12-01T16:51:53.489-05:00Well, I don't think wealth distribution to me ...Well, I don't think wealth distribution to me is justified at all.<br /><br />We were eligible for all sorts of public assistance when we were first married, but we wouldn't have dreamed of applying for or accepting it. According to someone else's definition, we were "poor".<br /><br />We didn't feel poor - we felt lucky. And all heck would have frozen over before we ever allowed some outside entity to determine the amount of money we had to live on. What is given can be taken away, and I consider it morally reprehensible for one person to think they have a right to the fruits of another's labor (or even good luck) :pCassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00083557761155403492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-71269090515257906282016-12-01T14:26:08.212-05:002016-12-01T14:26:08.212-05:00I believe that everybody thinks wealth distributio...I believe that everybody thinks wealth distribution <i>to themselves</i> is justified but finds problems with it both up and down the scale.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-78585195063313636912016-12-01T13:57:16.582-05:002016-12-01T13:57:16.582-05:00...the problem with the distribution of wealth in ...<i>...the problem with the distribution of wealth in this country is that the people who receive and pay for services with their own money have a different judgment of their worth than the valuation that the smart and virtuous people would like to impose on the rest of us.</i><br /><br />This may misstate the case. It's more that the smart and virtuous see a different valuation per unit of productivity between the poor and the better off. The poor get a unit productivity premium because of their poverty.<br /><br />It's nearly biblical, really.<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-80384719157569211582016-12-01T11:31:04.189-05:002016-12-01T11:31:04.189-05:00Obama’s mockery of Trump began as early as the 201...<i>Obama’s mockery of Trump began as early as the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, largely as the result of Trump’s support of the “birther” conspiracy theory, which claims that Obama was born in Africa and so impugns the legitimacy of his office. Into the final stretch of this year’s campaign, moments of serene assurance were plentiful. </i><br /><br />I wonder if the Trump Presidency isn't Obama's doing. People have mocked Trump as President since the 1980s -- <a href="https://theringer.com/donald-trump-bloom-county-slumlord-73a0f5ca3c17#.aos8571sv" rel="nofollow"><i>Bloom County</i></a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/06/23/how-doonesbury-predicted-donald-trumps-presidential-run-29-years-ago/" rel="nofollow"><i>Doonesbury</i></a> both had strips about it -- but being mocked to your face as unworthy is provocative. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com