lol, probably. Good luck out there, dipshit.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/French_Revolution_Ma sonic_Symbolism.htm

MLP auto-one

I've just stopped mentioning it in the comments because I'm not trying to give people grief about it. I'll be 1-starring MLP and Star Wars related videos on here until the end of time.

I lived in Aberdeen almost 20 years. Where abouts were you mothership?

It's not MLP, you dork. It's the Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas.

If that's a veiled criticism about me, I won't hear it, and I won't respond to it.

There's nothing veiled about it. USA is a crude parody of MLP and has no real connection to Da Ponies whatsoever.

That Guy is obligated to 5-star a My Little Pony video to make up for this mistake.

Might I suggest Fluttershy Pantsu?

Nope, 1-star for all MLP and Star Wars videos, parodies included.
Zero tolerance.

Pony up some money, Mr. Alpaca.

They're completely in control of the used furniture/shit you dig up or find on the ground industry in Animal Crossing too. Sneaky little fluffy bastards.

Oh! I knew I knew Adam McKay from something: Eastbound and Down. This video didn't teach me anything I didn't already know, but I like alpacas.

What is the solution?

I'm more curious about where the endgame will take place. A lot of actual "make stuff" businesses rely on there being a consumer-based middle class. A lot of megacorps are finally at least paying lip service to the thought that MAYBE slave-wages aren't going to let their bottom lines grow.

On the other hand, we've got shitloads of money (and out-and-out corruption, bribery, taxpayer payouts) going to investment banking and the like which contributes nothing to the economy other than yet another middleman who leeches off of businesses and consumers while making wild bets that fuck things up for everyone. Not to mention corporate entities that exist for no reason other than to play math games with the stock market (again, contributing nothing; it's all just a numbers game where someone gets rich via computer algorithm).

The question seems to be, when will those who are already obscenely wealthy hit a point where the lower classes can't keep their investment gravy-train rolling, unless said oligarchs own the Dollar Store? Money is more fictional than ever (and no, I'm not suggesting precious metals or anything) in that to the uber-rich, their grand totals are meaningless in that they could never spend it all yet the thought of it somehow diminishing, even when they'd never notice, is something they claim is just shy of Nazism.

I think it'll come down to whether or not the wealthy can build a domed fortress somewhere before this system somehow falls apart. I don't see an armed revolution taking place per se, but a full-on swing to corporate feudalism seems in the offing, and that doesn't seem like a system that could last.

In other words, not with a bang or a revolution, but with a balance sheet full of meaningless numbers clutched to a CEO's chest while our infrastructure falls apart.

There are a few easy steps, none of which will be taken.

1. Financial transaction tax on purchase/selling of shares. I myself buy and sell stuff and I would happily pay a transaction tax. It would kill off the automated trades, leading to better stability and more long-term investing instead of the micro-trading bullshit.

2. Public campaign financing. Get the power away from the lobbyists and back into the hands of the people they are supposed to be representing.

3. Base tariffs on imported manufactured goods on median worker compensation for the producers. People can buy tube socks because some poor fuck in Indonesia gets paid in pennies per day.

4. One thing that I think would be nice is a salary cap for CEO's but I don't see that ever happening. So re-introducing the higher progressive rates for the high income earners would definitely help.

I could go on and on but these all presuppose a cooperative government and I don't see that ever happening without either #2 or a public uprising of some sort.

"(I just left a company where the CEO hired some pal from their last company to work for a big salary as basically VP of standing around the water cooler)"

This is not a new thing.

Exactly, OZ. I don't see why people are *just now* waking up to this, and acting like income equality is something *brand new* that only started happening since, conveniently, right around the time they were born. You have never had opportunities. You were never going to get a Porsche. A hundred years ago there were no cars or shitty schools or sugar factories, and thirty years from now there probably won't be any drinking water left. Want to fix things? Tough shit. Your jobs will be outsourced to parts of the world your current lifestyle was built on through ruthless exploitation, and the only question is how quickly you'll drive the jobs there. Those Third World folks won't ever have Porsches, either, but at least they'll start to get some of the stupid bullshit that *we* measure our standards of success against, like overpriced socks and factory-made sugar treats... at least until their drinking water runs out, too.

I think a lot of it too is that whatever country provides the cheapest labour wins. Like the UK was the top dog until all the manufacturing jobs moved to the US, and then the US became top dog. Now all the manufacturing jobs are moving to China, so will China be top dog next?

America's glory days were over in the 80's, she's like an aging actress that needs someone to keep telling her she's beautiful.

I don't want America to be Gwenyth Paltrow! Nooooooo!

And she wonders why noalpaca wants to give her a high-paying job...

I want to know what happened to Sunshine. Did she move back in with her parents and take a cashier job at Wool-Mart? Did she become a low-paid social worker in the downtrodden community where she grew up? Or did she just guilt-trip her rich friend into getting her a cushy position through cronyism?