The actual problem is how do we give people things that are way more expensive than those people will ever be able to cover themselves?

The answer is to make someone else pay for it. But man, have you ever gone to dinner with your large tech salary and been advised you have a moral obligation to cover 80% of the table's bill, and then be demonized for scrutinizing what people ordered?

Socialism is great when you can get yourself to believe that the government is a bottomless money pit fed by evil people with infinite money harvested from captive forced labor.

Capitalism is great when you can get yourself to believe that the lives of people who cannot carry (or did not carry) their weight don't matter.

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conception 2 days ago | parent [-]

I think you’re a magnitude or two off in the current state of wealth inequality. It’s more like people are asking you with a 400k/yr salary to pitch in to buy candy bars and you’re upset someone picked out a king size for fifty cents more.

	▲	WarmWash 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Socialist policies would be decidedly less popular if people knew that most of the money to fund them would come from middle and upper middle class earners. While those people as individuals have nowhere near "billionaire" money, they as a contingent have the most wealth. While the "1% have more money than the bottom 50%" is true, they have less than half the money of the 70%-95%. America's cash cow is in the suburbs, not the Hamptons. Kinda forbidden knowledge to know that.