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      09-13-2019, 08:22 AM   #2
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I don't get it. More luxury/high end sports cars are being purchased than ever before, and somehow that equates to income inequality. Appears to me like there's more wealthy people than before, so more expensive toys are being purchased.

Isn't this a good thing, and idk, the point of Capitalism? The wealthy made decisions that got them to their wealth and success. I'm sure not all of it is rosy, but for the most part, I'm sure everything wasn't just laid out to them in their laps. They must have done something to get there.

As for the people "getting by": I don't understand how their (or my) situation is somehow the rich's fault. We all agree to work for a salary/wage, or collect handouts. If we don't like it, we make decisions to push ourselves forward (or backwards), or we pound sand and complain about it. Some people start out with more or are just smarter than others in the ways of making money, and some of us need to put in more time to make more or less than others. Not everyone has the same opportunity to accrue wealth, but that's just life, and will never change. Some of us get farther in life than others, but it would be naive to think that everyone can become rich enough to afford these high end cars. Everyone can be poor though, and that's most easily accomplished through Socialism.

Fortunately for the poor, only they themselves or other rich people can make them rich. I've never heard of a poor person creating jobs or making another poor person rich. It's either you work your way to the top yourself, or you work for somebody else long enough to accrue your fortune, hopefully with hard work and good decisions. But that isn't guaranteed, nor should it be.


So in the end, I think it's a good thing more high end cars are being purchased. That means more people "made it", and we should all want to be able to do that ourselves, if that's what we desire out of life. Doesn't mean we will get it or are owed any of it though, and it doesn't mean those who have made it haven't earned to be where they are, either. Exceptions always exist, but it is hardly the norm.
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