Recent content by Houseman

The statistics aren't the problem. The problem is the story that propagandists are telling with these statistics, and the fallacies they use while doing so, such as money/wealth/the economy being a zero-sum game. They show you a graph or some number and tell a story designed to outrage you. The...

The lower and middle class are not dying of hunger because they cannot afford food or suffering homelessness because they cannot afford housing. People who are in this state likely have other problems that the economy did not cause. Until we see mass malnutrition and mass homelessness, there is...

That question is unanswerable, because there a lot of different variables that would drastically change how "hard" or how "easy" a person has it. How stable was their family growing up? How educated are they? What industry are they in? Do they live with family? Do they have children? Did they...

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No, Americans aren't "entitled" to "shared prosperity". One is entitled to what they work for and what they earn themselves. There is no "sharing". If an individual wants to share what they have earned, great, but you aren't owed a percentage of the GDP just for existing. Wealth, money, income...

There is no "balance" or "ratio" that there needs to be, or should be, between the CEO and the low-level employee. Just because CEOs used to make 20x and now they make 200x, it doesn't mean that 20x is what the ratio should be. And yet, the US worker is doing just fine. The US worker is not...

First of all, the video starts off with (and later revealed to be wholly based on) a misunderstanding of how the economy works. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. In other words, wealth is not transferred from one party to another. There is not a fixed amount of "wealth" that is just divvyed up...

Shareholders are the ones that invest in the company. That's what it means to "buy" a share. The investment was already made. A company isn't literally paying back shareholders. A shareholder just wants to see the value of their shares rise. If the shareholder wants to convert that back into...

After reading this, yes, my prediction was accurate, but my prediction was also based on the false premise that these things existed. There is no such thing as "Trickle down economics", as that is a term made up by critics to attack policies they disagreed with. No one can quote anybody...

Speaking of this, here's a free essay from Thomas Sowell, titled "'Trickle Down' Theory and 'TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH'" https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/Sowell_TrickleDown_FINAL.pdf I haven't read it yet, but it's only 13 pages, so I'll do that shortly. I predict he'll...

Perhaps to discourage the practice of anchor babies. Because the rich are already taxed, and their tax payments, even with all the "tax cuts" they already get, make up for the majority of tax income. "Shutting down huge corporations" is just nonsense. You are wholeheartedly swallowing leftist...

Trump, who says 20,000 words a day, "floated" this idea, which only technically involves "citizens", because "anchor babies" who are purposefully born on US soil by illegal immigrants, are automatically given citizenship, which is something else he wants to abolish. So at least be honest and...

I think more definition about what is considered "Personal Information" could be made. You could add the word "Private" to it. There could be a distinction made between information that one publicly reveals about themselves, such as Donald Trump's real name and their photo, and information that...

>Using dating apps at all lol "Inherent"

Of course, this isn't about the LA riots that are happening at the time of this post. This was 1957. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. "Diversity at gunpoint" is the title one user gave to this image. There are similar memes taken from the same event, such as one and two. This is...