Which leads into how we’re fucking up with wealth disparity and tax structure and capital gains.
It wouldn’t take them ten generations to catch up if payroll taxes were less than capital gains. It wouldn’t take ten generations to catch up if the top 0.3% paid for our public healthcare instead of us getting fucked by funding our own private healthcare where we’re getting gouged left and right. We’d be a lot closer to those ten generations if we hadn’t stomped on Tulsa, and didn’t take every other opportunity to take advantage of the poor. Enjoy this $35 overdraft fee.
And they’ll never catch up because we’ve dropped the estate taxes to absurdly low levels. 15 generations from now, in 375 years, Jeff Bezos descendents will still be much better off than any middle class family. (Assuming nothing changes.) That’s absurd. It’s one thing to provide for your children and grandchildren, but at some point your family should have to provide something back to society again, even if your great, great, great, x5 grandfather did invent the wheel.
We’re all getting fucked, they’re just getting it worse. Their fight is our fight, even if it’s just for selfish reasons. You think the cops can’t get away with shooting your kid just because he’s white?