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As an aside, I really dislike the term 99%. By a lot of metrics, I'm in the 1%, as I imagine a lot of engineers are.

I think it's really the 99.9%.

Being in the 1% top income in the country kind of rings hollow if you still can't afford a house.



The real division is labor vs. capital, but for historical reasons its impossible to use that distinction in those terms in public discourse in the US, so you get 99% vs. 1%, Main Street vs. Wall Street, and all kinds of other terms that talk around the real issue.


Interesting. So you're saying that it boils down to being branded as a communist because of the history of the US.

I'm Canadian, so the irrational fear of communism/socialism is much lower here.

Not that I'm advocating for communism of course. Any system that honestly believes that a dictatorship[1] needs to be established first and that it will simply "whither away"[2] has been proven by history to be wrong.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state




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