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Originally Posted by Cherry7
Yes the money is in the system and their ownership of that money means power for those with money, to make the laws, to keep wages low, to eliminate competition. A lot of it is also in property distorting house prices, putting small shops out of business.
The massive inequality in wealth leads to massive inequality in power, life, health, education, the perversion of the political system and foreign wars for profit.
There is some social mobility but for the most part the poor stay poor. The rich of course also control the myth making machines that would have you believe you live in the happiest best country in the World where ever that may be.
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There is nothing stopping a poor person in the western world from waking up one day, determined to make money and then being able to do it. The only thing stopping them is the "you can't do it, its not your fault" rhetoric of people like you.
Poor people today have computers, laptops, iphones, multiple tvs, cars etc etc etc etc. Lets not pretend "poor" means "sleeps on a dirt floor and eats squirrels to survive in the Appalachia Mountains"
Imagine if the predominant message was "you can do it" and people like you, across the world stopped saying "you can't do it". Then you'd have real change.