Why should Americans lower their quality of living to satisfy the addiction that millionaires and...

[AZ Progressive]

billionaires have?

Why do Americans have to suffer the damaging effects of an addiction of money that millionaires and billionaires have in America?

This country, the only country that I have lived in, just doesn't make sense to me when I think about it.

[el_bryanto]

1. Because a majority of Americans hope someday to suffer from that addiction to money themselves.

They don't want anybody messing up their future mansions.

Most days I'd settle for a bathtub that was actually comfortable.

Bryant

[femmocrat]

6. I respectfully disagree with that.

You often hear that rationalization on the TV talk shows, but I don't think "a majority" of Americans really think they can achieve that kind of wealth. I think people have realistic expectations of the limits to their future earnings. People just want a fair shake and recognize that being a multi-millionaire is a fantasy.

[el_bryanto]

10. I dont' know - they do continually vote for policies that enrich the wealthy at the expense of

themselves. And electing politicians who do the same. Some of that can be attributed to scapegoating, i assume. But when you listen to talk radio a lot of it is about reaching for the high salaries you will ge eventually.

Bryant

[femmocrat]

12. I know and I don't understand why.

I just think that the republicans are very good at demonizing the "Libruls" and the people who listen to them must lack critical thinking skills. I don't listen to talk radio, but doesn't it skew almost totally to the far right? They crank out their propaganda and the low-information listeners just soak it up day after day. It's kind of a brain-washing process. They must be the same people (or their ilk) who swear by Faux "news".

[Sherman A1]

11. Precisely

While we might hope to hit it big, most folks have very real expectations about their earnings and where they fit in the grand scheme of things. People just want a chance to get a piece of that so called American Dream.

[AZ Progressive]

14. Before the 2008 recession, a poll on Millenials showed that 80% said that being rich is one of their goals

From 2007:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-09-gen-y-cover_x.htm

Eighty-one percent of 18- to 25-year-olds surveyed in a Pew Research Center poll released today said getting rich is their generation's most important or second-most-important life goal; 51% said the same about being famous.

[randys1]

2. We tolerate it so to some extent we are responsible. We celebrate capitalists like Donald Trump

who make their money off of the suffering of people who can no longer afford the rent he charges.

[femmocrat]

13. That's a good point.

The media does fawn over the super-rich like the Kardashians, et al. I put trump in the same category as those types.

[Autumn]

3. Because they can afford to buy the politicians to satisfy and improve their quality of living.

Well, except for Bernie Sanders.

[underthematrix]

4. Why do regular Americans have such a severe addiction for the things

millionaires and billionaires sell which you know makes them millionaires and billionaires

[tecelote]

5. We think socialism for the rich is fine. Just not for the rest of us.

Republicans love socialism as it stands today. They bitch about food stamps but really food stamps are a gift to Walmart stockholders. Every dollar paid in food stamps is a dollar Walmart does not need to pay it's employees. The poor do not benefit, they work to sustain themselves. Stockholders benefit.

Endless war means endless profits. Our tax dollars are making war mongers rich while we are just creating more threats that demand more war.

The task is to show that all Americans deserve the benefits of our tax dollars, not just the wealthy and corporations.

[JI7]

7. because many americans think they will become billionaires and millionaires

Just look at the lottery

[SoLeftIAmRight]

8. never fear - Hillary will tell them to "cut it out"

the hillary solution

[farleftlib]

9. The ownership class resents that we even have life.

The prospect of our suffering is of great comfort to them.