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There’s also more to resolutions than lose weight and/or quit smoking. I spend January planning out my entire year. There are only 52 weekends and they get filled up quickly
I think if you work harder, faster, smarter and have some luck you will succeed no matter what and have some extra time to reflect on your life also.
Which sounds much more reasonable when you consider that many small businesses owners will be millionaires but not enough to be considered super wealthy. No evidence that billionaires are mostly self-made.
Ignoring the politics of it, this wording is pretty funny to me.
Even though we have plenty of evidence and research that it makes society better for everyone.
And there is zero evidence that the more billionaires a country has the better it is.
1. Is income equality the primary driver of a country descending into social turmoil?
2. If not, is the USA so politically and socially similar to those countries in other ways that an income equality system - or a system that moves in that direction - would be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back?
I'm particularly interested in #2 as a non-American.